Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have long made liberal use of color engravings-which happen to be expensive but which, we feel, are indispensable to art journalism. As early as 1934 we ran color to support a story about American artists, including Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. Since May 1951, Art has run color illustrations as a regular feature-1,413 color pages all told. "Black and white photography," says Senior Editor Cranston Jones, who is in charge of the Art section, "leaves out an essential element of the artist's statement...
...Evelyn Wood's method of teaching speed reading has changed little since her days of glory at the University of Delaware. If you were one of the supposed 300,000 people who have mastered her technique, you would have passed this paragraph a long time ago and would be making better use of your time on column...
...smallness of each fixation -- usually no more than a word and one half--the number of fixations, and the ability to read only linearly from left to right are also results of the way reading is taught in the earliest stages. Mrs. Wood explains, "You learned to read across the line. You cautiously picked up each word in the spoken word order, and became very dependent upon this word order." Whereas in learning German, "You become accustomed to seeing the first half of a German verb at the beginning of a sentence and the last half some seven or eight...
According to Mrs. Wood, the size of fixation was decreased in the process of learning to read. "You did not learn to use your eyes in reading as you use them in all other seeing functions. For example, you do not look at a picture from left to right. You see it as a whole, as a unit; then understanding the whole, you can more intelligently understand its parts...
...Evenly Wood took the University of Delaware by storm