As I look out my office window at the freshmen moving into the dorms, I'm reminded of
a classic study of student housing at MIT demonstrating the importance of physical proximity on forming friendships.
The circular red ribs that make up the urn - like form of Cherubini's «Morning Star» reflect the looping vase handles and linear flowers in Nichols's still lifes; the figure / field spatial disparity in Bischof's «Omi im Bregenzer Wald» is also found in Trudy Benson's «Yes, and...» from 2014 (evidently a play on Yes, but..., Dore Ashton's
classic study of Philip Guston's late work, published in 1976), where beads of yellow paint resembling wads of chewed - up chewing gum seem to drift above a receding gray and green field, which is bordered in peach - and - gray shards intersecting with black - and - white stripes.
The Guggenheim's
classic study of photo - based artworks that question gender identity is back in print at last.
I first learned about the 12 Stages of Physical Intimacy from Linda Howard, who used to give a very popular talk on the subject based on the work of Desmond Morris, Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's
Classic Study of Human Intimacy.
«Occupations shape people,» wrote Dan C. Lortie in
his classic study of the teaching profession, [i] and most educators have almost no day - to - day socialization or support for sustained attention to or focus on their own learning.
The perfect opening line of Grahame - Smith's audacious 2011 novel sets up what's to come; an on - the - nose mash - up of Austen's
classic study of 19th century social mores and the bloody mayhem of a zombie apocalypse.
In «Regeneration Through Violence,»
his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.
A classic study of nine healthy British volunteers found that bacteria accounted for more than half of the mass of their fecal solids.
According to
a classic study of laughter by Robert Provine of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and his colleagues, laughter is an unexpectedly serious business.
The city pioneered the «centers concept» in modern urban planning, and when Reyner Banham wrote
his classic study of LA's social - architectural geography, he famously relegated downtown to a brief afterthought «note» at the end of the book.
Bell and Weinberg, in
their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners.
How did that situation compare to
the classic studies of bystander intervention?
In
the classic studies of caloric reduction the result was a significantly lowered metabolic rate or Total Energy Expenditure (TEE).
One of the better
classic studies of social differences since George Bernard Shaw found an unspoken love between a professor and a sidewalk flower seller in «Pygmalion,» «The Second Mother» highlights the ways an allegedly liberal woman acts with condescension toward her long - employed maid.
Not exact matches
In fact, the
classic «marshmallow
study,» led by psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s, found that kids who were able to delay the delicious gratification
of eating a marshmallow wound up more successful as adults.
A
classic study from the University
of Minnesota, for example, found that presentations using visual aids are 43 % more persuasive than unaided presentations.
He cites a
classic decision - making
study in which horse racing experts were given information to predict the outcome
of a race, and asked their level
of confidence in their prediction.
Rounding off another beaded string
of platitudes, he changed gears and erupted with a burst
of rhetoric referencing one
of the ancient
classics he had
studied at Harvard and before.
The
classic study from Anthony Bastardi
of Stanford and Eldar Shafir
of Princeton presented research subjects with scenarios in which they needed to choose between two alternatives.
(Poets & Quants)-- It has all the makings
of a
classic business school case
study.
One
classic study, outlined in the book Getting a Job, showed that among the 282 men surveyed, 56 percent had found their jobs through personal contacts, whereas only 19 percent had found theirs through job advertisements and 10 percent through applications
of their own initiative,» says the post.
One German
study, for instance, showed that participants who had listened to music with prosocial lyrics (such as Bruno Mars's «Count on Me» or Aretha Franklin
classic «Respect») were equally likely to help students with German and Turkish - sounding last names (there is a large population
of Turks living in Germany).
The latest Treasury - market news is from ICAP, which «is
studying the possibility
of temporarily halting Treasurys trading following large price moves,» a
classic idea imported from the equity markets.
Economists have analyzed extensively how platform markets may pose unique challenges for antitrust analysis.377 Specifically, they stress that analysis applicable to firms in single - sided markets may break down when applied to two - sided markets, given the distinct pricing structures and network externalities.378 These
studies often focus on the challenge that two - sided platforms face in attracting both sides — the
classic coordination problem
of having to attract buyers without an established line
of sellers, and vice versa.379 Economists tend to conclude that — given the particular challenges
of two - sided markets380 — antitrust should be forgiving
of conduct that might otherwise be characterized as anticompetitive.381
But perhaps the
classic entrepreneurial company is a pure technology play: Tonbo Imaging, a Bangalore - based company launched by Arvind Lakshmikumar, an engineer who
studied at India's Birla Institute
of Technology and at Carnegie Mellon.
For what it's worth, in my own subjective opinion, a modern day type
of Hypatia / Galileo might be modern author D.M. Murdock, who is an alumna
of Franklin & Marshall College where she
studied Classics, Greek Civilization.
The
study of the Greek and Roman
classics, staples
of the literary culture, was not displaced by the Scriptures.
Anyway, my take from 7 + years
of some in - depth
studies into dynamics
of toxic systems is that malignant ministry can happen within any
classic or contemporary theological paradigm, any denomination, as you've suggested.
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 By George H. Nash Intercollegiate
Studies Institute, 467 pages, $ 24.95 George Nash knows as much about the intellectual history
of modern American conservatism as anybody, and it is a pleasure to have his
classic 1976
study again available.
The interface
of classical and Christian culture has its obvious pivot point in Augustine,
of whom Brown has written a
classic study
The
classic anthropological picture, largely drawn from the
study of primitive societies,
of tightly - woven patterns
of culture, each element
of which has to be understood in relation to all the other interconnected elements, is decreasingly relevant to the understanding
of man - in - relation.
(The cliched but
classic example would be Milgram's experiment — but recent
studies, such as one reported by the New York Times at the beginning
of this month, reveal similar things).
As I was coming to an end
of writing this book, I came across the advice given by Henri de Lubac, author
of a
classic study on Catholicism, to Fr.
This could mean putting an end to the
classic youth group model that so many
of us grew up with, the model in which teenagers participate in their own worship, their own Bible
studies, their own social events, their own outreach activities, their own missions trips, and so on.
The person who
studied the
classics at home, who wrote poetry in the early hours, or who listened in private to Beethoven quartets was, in my little patch
of suburban England, no more to be despised than the expert in tarot cards, the amateur acrobat, or the breeder
of exotic chickens.
They correspond to what H. Richard Niebuhr in his
classic mid-century
study Christ and Culture termed the «Christ transforming culture» model
of the Reformed tradition and the «Christ above culture» model
of the Catholic tradition.
In the busy, striving age
of progress, the
study of the
classics has seemed a luxury few could and none should afford.
In their
classic study, reported in The Purpose
of the Church and Its Ministry, H. Richard Niebuhr and his collaborators concluded that «no substitute can be found for the definition
of the goal
of the Church as the increase among men
of the love
of God and neighbor.»
Modern scholarship lays stress on parables as metaphors.104 The root
of the
study of metaphor is traced to the Greek
classics, where it was understood as a single word.
Along with the Greek and Latin
classics, the
study of the Bible was revived and this contributed largely to the Reformation.
The revival
of the
study of the
classics of the ancient world was destined to lead to the emergence
of the modern world by reawakening that inquiring mind that marked at least some
of the early Greeks.
It's also the finest
classic historical writing I've read in a long time, a penetrating
study of character, and a meditation on the unexpected and its role in era - defining events.
The title
of a
classic sociological
study, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians
of Brooklyn Against Liberalism, sums up my cultural and social surroundings.
His most recent works include two books in the field
of Thomistic
studies, namely Aspects
of Aquinas (Veritas Publishing, 2005), and Aquinas 101: A Basic Introduction to the Thought
of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Christian
Classics, 2007).
The years
of study that led to the four volumes
of the Classical Pastoral Care series and the
study of Gregory the Great (Pastoral Care in the
Classic Tradition) helped free me to listen to supposedly «precritical» writers with postcritical attentiveness.
Yet for centuries, Christian institutions have nurtured the
study of the
classics.
But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his
classic book The Metaphysical Foundations
of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor
of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out
of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for
studying it.
True Muslims
studied the books
of Confucius and Lao Tzu, but very few touched the Buddhist
classics.
I was young, I was
studying French literature in the course
of becoming a teacher, and Charlie Hebdo was a weekly break from the
classics.
Maritain came to the problems
of politics and society rather late in his reflections and then, having achieved much, never took up a
study of the great economic
classics, especially those
of the Austrian and Anglo - American worlds.