Word: visual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they sing. From a purely auditory viewpoint the performance was scarcely more than worth attending. The eye, however, was caught, held and delighted by the perfect ensemble pantomime of the chorus, which lolled and sat about at various levels throughout most of the production, and provided a sort of "visual accompaniment" to the action which centred about the main characters...
...natural player has the faculty of doing many things instinctively and has often the further power, usually lost in late childhood, of accurate physical imitation. He performs remarkably because of fine physical development and temperament coupled with a very fast visual and muscular reaction. His success comes without the need of hard thought and practice in overcoming the details--he does them instinctively. When he tries coaching he may be successful with that rare bird, one of his own kind, but he cannot impart his strength, imitative ability and quick reaction to the average man and he has never gone...
...fowl: these were, last week, loaded tenderly into 40 trucks, moved into the new building of the Peabody Museum at Yale. More than 2,000 scientists have been invited for the museum's opening. Children of the State of Connecticut, school by school, will be led through for "visual instruction...
...extent of his command over it. If line, color, form, alone are Art, say such moderns as the Four Blue Ones, the intrusion of anything else is corruption. As a sonata is composed of a series of audile sensations called chords, a painting is composed of a series of visual sensations. Artists should put down lines, lay on colors, with the simple purpose of giving the eyes an adventure instead of the complicated purpose of doing this while pretending only to show how Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire* looked at 43, or the arrogance of a stern Dutch captain...
...they might find themselves flying partially on one side so that they slipped readily into what was known as a "wing slip," and fatal accidents resulted from such causes. In other words, when the aviator was unable to orient himself in relation to the horizon by use of the visual sense, he could not depend for maintaining his balance on the knowledge coming to his brain from the semicircular canals alone...