Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly in the last half century millions of Americans have become convinced that they or their children will only be pseudo-adults without a four-year apprenticeship to these same scholars. College is well on its way to becoming an industrial puberty rite, complete with its ordeal by terror (the examination) and its ritualized search for a vision by means of self-torture (5000 word papers written...
...importance of such efforts should they succeed, but if the superficial veneer of culture which most people acquire in college is the sole return on their investment, then millions of Americans are being short changed. Before accepting this improbable hypothesis we must scrutinize the possibility that the four year apprenticeship to the scholars (often called "liberal education") changes not only the veneer but the man within...
Elizabeth Arden studied to be a nurse, entered the cosmetics business because, she says, she wanted to make women beautiful as well as healthy. Before opening her own beauty salon in 1910, she spent an apprenticeship as secretary in a Fifth Avenue beauty shop. Today she grosses an estimated $15 million yearly, owns a topflight racing stable (Maine Chance). The carefully preserved beauty queens are the best ads for their own products: Rubinstein is in her 80s, Arden in her 70s-and their exact ages are as jealously guarded as their cosmetic secrets. Says an aide: "We never talk...
Delight in the Ruins. Born in the Italian Alps, Nervi got his engineering degree from Bologna, served as a lieutenant in the World War I Italian Corps of Engineers. Out of the army, he worked out his apprenticeship with one of Italy's best construction companies, then at 31 set up his own office in Rome. His first spectacular chance to prove his worth came when he won a contract to build huge airplane hangars for the Italian air force. To avoid using scarce wood and steel, Nervi created a design in reinforced concrete with prefabricated vaulting, produced vast...
...grinding days of Nivola's apprenticeship are now far past. The forms he likes to make are in great demand; recently they have come to adorn such varied projects as the Manhattan showroom for Olivetti typewriters, a war memorial at Falls Church, Va. (TIME, Oct. 10, 1955). "Because of the privileges of history," Nivola says with quiet satisfaction, "we have arrived at the point where we do not have to please the king. On the other hand, we do not work to please the public. The artist must give not something that is demanded, but what he finds...