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Guesswork in GobbledygooL The psychologists are worse, torn as they are between gestaltists, behaviorists, functionalists, reflexologists and other -ists. They expend their energies formalizing the obvious ("Although other sensations have various degrees of hedonic tone," says one textbook, "pain is notoriously unpleasant"). But the result of all their efforts, Standen insists, is that they cannot say anything really important about man. "It is possible to go clear through a course in psychology without ever hearing what the various virtues...
Agar's illuminating study ends with the true journalist's application of is text to the immediate situation: he suggests that a modern world torn by conflicting ideologies and seeking a compromise "might do worse than study the curious methods by which such assuagements are effected" in the marvelous history of the American republic...
Souvenir cups & saucers lay crushed in the wreckage; nylon stockings and burst food parcels were jumbled with the torn sections of human bodies. The plane did not burn. There was one other survivor, Melville Thomas, a colliery fitter from Llanharan. Eighty were killed. It was the worst crash in aviation history...
...fire was extinguished within minutes after the fivemen had hauled a ladder up through the window and torn away sections of the sound absorbent ceiling. Faulty wining was the culprit...
Whether or not influence could account for it, Mr. and Mrs. Tanguy did share a predilection for subdued colors, vast spaces and striking titles. One of the most impressive pictures in Kay's show was a wall as elaborately constructed as a Chinese puzzle. Festooned with torn cloths, it looked like a window-cleaner's dream of Radio City. Kay's title for it was Three Thousand Miles to the Point of Beginning...