Word: monographs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William G. Cochran, professor of Statistics (Preparation of a monograph on the planning of observational studies for the use of research workers in the social sciences, medicine, and public health, at the Rothamsted Experimental Station near London). Frank Freidel, Jr,. professor of History (Further volumes in a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, at Harvard and Hyde Park, N.Y.). Howard S. Hibbett '44, professor of Japanese Literature (A critical study of the psychological novel in Japan since 1900, at Tokyo...
...America, Critic John Baur once wrote in an excellent Whitney Museum monograph, "the bitterness and disgust which had inspired the great German drawings evaporated like night mist." Grosz painted the Manhattan skyline and the city's lights and signs. Instead of decay, he drew sensuous female nudes-the human body exploding with youth and health. Instead of ugliness, he drew and painted lyrical pictures of Cape Cod. Edmund Wilson recalls how fascinated Grosz was by the idealized life pictured in American ads showing handsome young people with every material blessing. The scourge of Berlin, it seemed, had lost...
...addition to his classic History and the companion Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, Boring has written psychology texts, a research monograph on The Physical Dimensions of Consciousness, a war manual (Psychology for the Fighting Man), articles on planaria, dementia precox, sensations in the alimentary canal, mental measurement, and the role of great men in the progress of science. Particularly famous papers dealt with the return of sensation in the arm after nerves have been cut, an experiment he performed on himself, and the "moon illusion"--the difference of the apparent size of the moon when...
Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cine-monograph on the early struggles of the papa of psychiatry, portrayed without much psychological insight by Montgomery Clift...
...reader observes Wilde's polite overtures to literary elders ("I take the liberty of sending you a short monograph. . . . It is little more than a stray sheet from a boy's diary"), watches with tolerance as the young wit, in an endless series of newspaper debates, carefully builds his reputation for outrageousness, and follows the unpredictable triumph of his American lecture tour, as the 27-year-old aesthete, dressed in velvet doublet and knee breeches, lectures enthusiastic Leadville miners on Italian art (Pearson's biography helps explain the Leadville success: it seems that Wilde wowed the miners...