Word: y
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ingres (pronounced like angry with the y cut off) traveled the road of the masters almost from his childhood in the Gascon town of Montauban. At nine he was already turning out drawings of astonishing maturity, and in 1797, when he was 17, he joined the Paris studio of the great classicist Jacques Louis David. But while David's figures remained solid and heroic, those of Ingres soon became pliant and touched with elegance. David took his inspiration from ancient Rome, and painted frequently from Roman statues. Ingres was struck by the Italian Renaissance primitives, by early Greek...
...Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery"). Between the wailing and the railing, some valid points get made...
...Linear Y. Branching. Skinnerians have proved something, but not to the satisfaction of a rival school of anti-behavioral programers led by Psychologist Norman A. Crowder of U.S. Industries' Western Design & Electronics division in Santa Barbara, Calif. While Skinner deplores multiple-choice questions because they contain "plausible" errors that students may remember, Crowder bases his whole approach on multiple choices. Instead of small steps, Crowder programs big chunks of information followed by a question with alternate answers. Choosing a right answer wins the student an advanced frame; a wrong answer sends him to a remedial frame with an explanation...
Detroit would like to create yet another trend. This fall Ford will bring out two new cars as yet unnamed, temporarily called "the Canadian X" and "the Canadian Y." They will fall between the compacts and standard cars in size and price, combine the roominess and utility of the larger cars with a smaller, compact look...
wheelbase v. Falcon's 109½-in., will become the low end of the standard Ford line. It will be aimed at a mass one-car family market, may eventually replace the standard Ford. The Canadian Y, with a 116½-in. wheelbase. will probably become the smaller Mercury. With its eye on Ford, Chevrolet is also getting ready an in-between car to be called the Corsair, with a wheelbase of 109-in., but added sheet metal that makes it look bigger...