Word: visual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sensory perception in animals is a major preoccupation in the psychology laboratories of the University of Rochester. There young John Warkentin, by recording the eye movements of animals placed inside a striped, revolving cylinder, has tested visual acuity in such difficult subjects as snakes, frogs, toads, turtles, alligators, gophers, Gila monsters. Some months ago Rochester's psychology department chairman, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, left to become president of Tufts College. He was replaced by trim, twinkly, soft-spoken Elmer Augustine Kurtz Culler, formerly of the University of Illinois, who has made profound studies of the "conditioned response" and whose specialty...
...those who considered verse too archaic a form to be nozzled through an audio tube, Pulitzer-Prize Poet MacLeish pointed out that since radio engages only the ear, "verse has no visual presence to compete with. . . . The ear is already half poet." Poet MacLeish then proceeded to give the ears of the U. S. radio audience 30 minutes of the finest verbal music of its time...
Today at high noon by the chronometer, the Vagabond will cruise to Robinson Hall to hear Professor Martin Wagner, of the Department of Regional Planning, lecture (without slides) on the derivation of the principal visual elements of modern architecture from the changed conditions of living characteristc of the twentieth century. Bolstered by this new knowledge, Vag, is sure that he will be able to steer a better architectural course around these new building-islands which are springing up in these University waters...
Convict Richard Whitney, Groton and Harvard graduate who has been teaching visual education* at Sing Sing, asked for a different job because he was vexed by the backwardness of his pupils, most of whom never finished grade school...
...blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain's No. 2 man. The Count orated: "In this extravagant display of selected specimens of captured war materiel you have visual evidence of the extensive foreign aid that the Marxists have been able to purchase abroad...