Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...took no newspapers, had no radio. She got her whole view of the changing world from the hotel windows over one traffic-jammed Manhattan street. She wore clothes designed in 1900. When the Seymour was modernized ten years ago she refused to let decorators enter her rooms; they went untouched. Finally, in the summer of 1948, Mary grew ill. Hotel employees and a doctor invaded her suite, found her lying amid squalor...
...illness in the family for a year or two ask themselves, "Why should I pay a lot in and get nothing back?" They drop out. Blue Cross turnover has ranged as high as 25% a year. Those who dropped out were, naturally, the healthiest-from an insurance point of view, "the best risks." Those who came in were likely to be poorer risks...
...finally reached the Fon's tiny city of elaborately decorated houses and well-paved courtyards. Reported the mission, of the Fon: "Probably more than 80 years of age [he himself claims to be more than 100), he is now in a stage when he can take a lenient view of this interference in what he might regard as his private affairs." But he pointed out that he did not deliver opinions upon the peculiar habits of Christian society; why, then, had the outside world taken exception to his own tribe's age-old customs? In his capacity...
...This view greatly overestimates the importance of size. If 65 men in each House were changed from non-resident to resident status, it could not have any crucial effect on House functions and would eventually allow everyone to live in a House. This would also case the rent problem for students, and enable the University to rent more rooms in the outside dormitories to graduate students...
Popper added that the Cartesian view, which conceives of success in science as contingent solely upon employing the correct method, is false, and that this attitude leads to what he considers an unhealthy organization of state scientific research...