Word: scanning
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...beauty is only scan deep, how can the buyer beware? The best arbiters of children's books are still, as I.B. Singer says, the children who can neither fake a laugh or suppress a snore. It is they who will be formed by the pages they hold in their hands and in their minds. It is they who will decide which books will be read over and over and which will lie neglected until the next garage sale...
...Reagan's TV expert Dailey cites studies showing that nearly a third of the commercial messages delivered over TV are misunderstood by viewers. "People aren't really intently listening," he says. "TV is a way to turn yourself off." Dailey recalls research showing that the electronic brain scan of a person watching TV is remarkably similar to that of the same person sleeping soundly...
...reflection offered by Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell in his biography of his aunt: "If the test of passion be blindness, then [Virginia's] affections were not very deeply engaged." Virginia sharpens that point in the play: "Life and a lover she thought. It does not scan." For Woolf, her work was her life. While she would drown herself as pitiably as Ophelia, she could not drown her vocation in Vita...
...Please, Doctor, Watch Your Language," DeBakey (sister of Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey) campaigns against "medicant," her term for the linguistic disease that afflicts physicians. Lois and her sister Selma, who is also on the Baylor faculty, spoof the ways in which medicant fractures ordinary language by asking audiences to scan horrible examples from medical journals. A favorite: the article by a professional administrator that urged medical staffs to "take an aggressively penetrating approach to the communicative dimensions of the interfaces between institutions of medicine." Another example: "Birth weight and gestation were obtained for 245 deaths with congenital heart disease that...
...house on Concord Ave. where they teach classes and promote Maharishi International University, "fully accredited education for the Age of Enlightenment." (TM spokesmen asked not to be included in an article on spiritual, religious or healing groups because "we are a science of consciousness, unlike the others.") A quick scan of the phone book also turns up such groups as Eckankar, the I AM Sanctuary, the Integral Yoga Institute and the Church of Cosmic Consciousness. The Sirius commune in Amherst, an offshoot of the Findhorn Community in Scotland that prospered supposedly because of divine guidance, is organizing most...