Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authorities realized that the only effective way to increase the reading rate was to change the eye patterns in some way. But it was not until World War II that a method was discovered for doing so. A device called a tachistoscope was used by the Air Force to train pilots to recognize the markings on airplanes in splitsecond time. The machine began flashing pictures of enemy fighter planes on a screen for one second and diminished the time until the planes were recognizable to the pilots at 1/100 seconds...
...speeds for those people capable of it. Says Roderic C. Hodgins, who has taught Harvard's reading course more than anybody else in the past five years, "It is like teaching somebody to ride a bicycle. It is perfectly easy to tell him what is done, but you cannot train a sense of balance.... The pupil says 'teach me to read faster,' but I can't grab hold of his eyeballs and wiggle them for him. You are trying to tell the average guy about something which is highly idiosyncratic. It is here that I begin to think to teach...
...feels that he is on the verge of perceiving the relationships of colors as configurations in space. Yet a concrete sense of space always eludes him, and the configurations appear only as fleeting interactions of diaphanous color-mists. This quality of continual change results from the viewer's ongoing train of association and his simultaneous and selective perception of other parts of the canvas...
...chance, the train robbers see their fictionalized selves in Robbery, they will doubtless be appalled by the Teutonic treatment of their dazzling crime, portrayed by an all-German cast mouthing dubbed dialogue. They may also be amused that the British have let yet another valuable property fall into the wrong hands-and foreign ones at that...
Alperovitz and others from the Harvard faculty have formed a committee for this purpose. They plan to train groups across the country to organize their own communities and weld people opposed to the war into an independent, political bloc...