Word: visual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characters themselves, shifting with their mood, and always throwing the picture into the most appropriate emphasis. The simple costumes are perfect foils for the light; incidental music and even off-stage devices for thunder, all play in the closest and most unobtrusive harmony. And the Bible story, growing visual before the eyes of the audience, takes on a human touch and significant beauty that even its perfection of written language cannot give...
...taken during a recent eclipse, six stars were shown to be out of their ordinary places, and the explanation is (according to the theory) that the sun exerts an attraction to the light ray as it comes from the distant star, thus bending the ray, and distorting our visual conception of the universe. Thus it may be proved that no stars are where they appear...
...visual images of the men under discussion is clarity itself, Bishop Gore, for instance, carries about with him "a permanently troubled conscience." The phrase lives in his face. It is not the face of a man at peace with himself. If he has peace of mind it is a Peace of Versailles. . . . He has the look of one whose head has long been thrust out of a window gloomily expecting an accident to happen at the street corner. And General Bramwell Booth, the hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with...
...been proved experimentally that there are several distinct types of minds which assimilate under different conditions. The man with the auditory mind learns by hearing or reading; the visual minds learns by seeing; and the motor minds learns by doing. The present system of education completely overlooks the third type and gives only half a chance to the second. The man who is skilfull with his hands--the mechanic, the painter, or the musician, is not given the same opportunity for development in an ordinary school that the pure student receives. Although Dr. Abbott recognizes that some men master languages...