Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shapiros are not unusual. Nor do they naturally read so fast. They learned this revolutionary technique of rapid reading at the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute . . . along with more than 6000 other persons in the Boston-Providence Area. Of these, the average student begins at about 300 words a minute and finishes at speeds over 1200 words a minute...
...Evelyn Wood first observed dynamic reading 18 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years she found 50 people who could read faster than 1500 words per minute with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction...
...recent teacher training conference, Mrs. Wood emphasized that dynamic reading is nothing like the skimming techniques commonly used in speed reading courses. She said, "Skipping words is dangerous, as you don't know whether or not you have skipped a word which could change the whole meaning of the sentence...
...read five times faster," she pointed out, "not by reading every fifth word but by reading five times as many words in the same amount of time." Mrs. Wood emphasized that using her technique of rapid reading, every word on the page is noted...
...society of consumption," he says, "everything is multiplied, from cars and refrigerators to country homes. One unique piece of art is an anachronism." An assembly line of ten assistants executes the paintings that he first drafts, then pastes up in prototype collages. Other aides turn out his serigraphs, tapestries, wood and Plexiglas constructions. Yet the multiples, priced at only $70 to $1,000, lack illusionistic finesse compared with the blazing oils and temperas that he supervises and touches up himself. In reality, his art is about as suitable to mass production as a Rolls-Royce...