Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditional answer to this demand to accquire a reasonable comprehension of the arts has been the historical method, best exemplified by Fine Arts 13 and Music 1. Walter Gropius, famed professor emeritus, castigates this approach for an undue reliance upon "passive absorbtion" instead of upon active creation. As the 1956 Report of the Committee on the Visual Arts indicated, there is a valid and necessary place for such a verbal approach, but it should not be considered sufficient by itself to convey a deep understanding of the artistic processes--essentially non-verbal--which play such a widespread role in society...
...girls. Another is the fact that, due to difference in study habits, boys' examinations tend to be "uneven." A Harvard student often "hits" one essay question, for which he had completed the reading and devoted thought, better than a Cliffie. But often he will completely "miss" two other answers. In contrast to this, girls, who usually do all the reading uniformly well, answer all questions with relatively equal competence. In the long run, this tendency works out in favor of the girls. "Education based on knowledge rather than capricious luck based on ignorance always wins out in the end, 'Morris...
...Answer. All this success has raised an important question: Has George Romney won a quick victory at the price of losing...
When the new cars wheel on to the market, what will become of American Motors? Some Big Three officials who wrote off the compact and small foreign cars only two years ago now have their own pat answer. Says one high-ranking automan: "Give the Big Three a year or so in the economy market, and Romney will be flat against the wall." But such crapehangers underestimate Romney's passion and skill in battling against odds...
Change in Thinking. One big question for which Romney thinks he can create his own answer is the fate of American Motors after the Big Three roll out their compact cars. "They will come in partially at first," says Romney, "at about the same volume at which we operate. But sooner or later they will be in on an all-out basis, with no holds barred. If we are right, they will have no alternative...