Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superdumbo, assigned to keep radio and visual watch for airmen going down, spotted three life rafts in the water. Already in contact with a submarine, the Superdumbo passed the word. But two Jap picket boats headed for the life rafts. The Superdumbo dropped four bombs which missed. Another Superdumbo showed up with two PB4Y (Liberator) Dumbos. They strafed and sank the Japanese craft, then guided the submarine to the survivors...
Junyer makes a parenthetical contention: that music concerts should be rid of visible musicians ("It is awful to look at the physical movements of musicians themselves"). Instead, he argues, listeners' visual attention should be diverted to scenery-especially adapted to different compositions, different composers...
...learning to walk, he had to substitute his visual sense for the injured sensory center. Supported by two nurses (he could not hold a crutch), he placed his feet on steps painted on the hospital floor, thus conditioned himself to the right length of stride. Now he walks (depending on his sight, rather than sense of touch) by watching his step out of the corner of his eye. He cannot walk with his eyes closed or in the dark. But in daylight he can walk a mile unaided...
...considerable number of Belgian youngsters, said M. Buisseret, had been infected with Naziism during the occupation because of the Nazis' remarkably persuasive teaching. A set of 8,000 lantern slides and 300 movies were circulated from a central exchange in Germany. Nazi supervisors also brought in other attractive visual aids, including maps, brochures, brightly colored charts, exhibits...
...holes. After the lady decided which group he belonged in, things began to seem better. On the second day, a Mickey Mouse cartoon telling how to pronounce the alphabet, a play session with model airplanes, and a telecast of Mother Goose songs ushered Peter into the wonderful audio-visual-tactual routine that was to keep him fascinated during all eight years of studying the "Common Learnings." At first he disliked being one of the group who got their long vacation in winter (his only free stretch in summer came when the National Teachers'. Alliance local struck for vacations with...