Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collection of trick shorts becomes boring just as soon as the novelty of seeing people jump out of the water onto a diving board or running backwards at full throttle wears off-and that's pretty soon. But the film at the Brattle uses visual foolery in the same intelligent way that a good farce uses its rudimentary pot: as a string for its gems of humor. Spice of Life is a series of sketches examining a variety of pests and bores. Logically unconnected, except by the fact that the poorest of them are quite amusing, these little episodes...
...Corps at Camp Gordon, Ga., the Human Resources Research Office of George Washington University had some good news for backers of educational TV. Most important findings of the test: 1) normal instruction time in one electronics course was cut in half when the course was presented on TV with visual gimmicks, e.g., closeups, cutaway models; 2) TV students remembered what they had learned as well as and often better than, students taught by regular classroom instructors; and 3) men with low I.Q.s benefited most, did far better on examinations than their counterparts in regular classes...
...School of Design satisfies its basic aim of "improvement of our physical environment by emphasizing the visual arts and aesthetics," Dean Jose L. Sert explained last night...
...School's emphasis is on the visual arts," he continued. "In teaching architecture, of course, we lay stress on the fact that buildings must have permanence, that they must last, but we are very much concerned with aesthetics, for architects should build beautiful buildings," he said...
...doctors finally diagnosed the case as visual agnosia, an extremely rare disorder whose victims cannot recall images to compare with what they currently see. But J.S. suffered from a highly specialized kind-a complete blank for faces, or "pro-sopagnosia." Said Dr. Donald Macrae: "We have nothing exactly like it in world literature...