Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other topics will include reconstruction of schools for democracy; supervisory practices; teaching of modern languages; war veteran problems; audio-visual education; educational administration; progressive education in elementary grades; citizenship training; and inter-group education...
...visual feels lost in the dark, has difficulty recognizing objects by sense of touch, but excels in visualizing details. A haptical, though no less imaginative than a visual, tends to think in more abstract terms, is better at mechanical jobs, has an acute sense of the bodily results of his behavior (e.g., a haptical pilot is more sensitive to turns in flight...
Because he believes it very important in choosing an occupation. Professor Lowenfeld has developed a test (which the U.S. Air Forces is using) to help you find out whether you are haptical or visual. Items: when asked to draw a chess board on a table, hapticals draw a player's view of the board and table top, visuals draw the whole thing in perspective, showing the table's legs. In a word association test, to the word "climbing" visuals are apt to respond: "mountain"; hapticals: "hard." Asked to think of the number of floors in a familiar building...
...Gray (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most literary classics and near-classics translate rather stodgily to the screen, no matter how faithful the adaptation. Oscar Wilde's famed and fancy morality legend is an exception. Its epigrams speak even more sharply than they read, and its dramatic essence is vividly visual. But though Writer-Director Albert Lewin, who also did The Moon and Sixpence (TIME, Oct. 19, 1942) deserves respect for a notably hard try, and though his Picture has some elegance, interest and excitement, it falls far short of what it should have been...
Bisection of Europe. And yet, even as Britons and Americans followed the Red Army's advance on their war maps, they could not escape at least a visual uneasiness. The line of Russia's 800-mile military front practically bisected Europe. How much farther west was it going to move? And what went on behind that line, where the western Allies had no effective power and little real information...