Word: subject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PECHMAN: The Administration has a role to play in price policy in the vast number of enterprises that are subject to Government regulation. We have hardly begun to make a national policy for these regulated industries...
Emlen's test subject was the indigo bunting, a little songbird and prodigious commuter that flies as far as 6,000 miles a year between Canada and Central America. Emlen put the birds in a planetarium and studied their reaction to fall star patterns. To his surprise, the birds seemed to ignore the artificial heavens on the planetarium dome. Outside it was spring, and the birds always tried to head north...
...five three-day seminars in the summer of 1968. Simultaneously Dr. Edward L. Palmer, an associate research professor in Oregon's state system of higher learning, began working with children across the country. "We learned that what bores them is too much time spent on any one subject." Hence the short spots. Also, "Nothing loses them faster than an adult full-face on the screen just talking." Hence the Muppets, the graphics and the film clips. "We try to keep verbiage to a minimum," Palmer adds. "If you sit and talk straight at them, kids think...
Sports would seem to be an ideal subject for movies. They are fast, colorful, suspenseful and sometimes violent. Yet they generally come out looking forced and fake, because they are used as a background for some trite melodrama. Football players lose their power on the field because their wives are frigid (Number One); drivers louse up on the racing track because their women are fickle (Winning); fighters sell out under the influence of booze, dames and the mob (Golden...
Calkins commented that he is not an expert on Vietnam policy. He said he came to speak to students about Vietnam because this is a subject on which "people ought to speak up" and because he is in favor of dialogue within the university...