Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honorable mention went to Jane M. Rabb '61, for "Henry James' The Ambassadors: A Work of Art," Thomas D. Hogan, Jr. '61, for "Social and Moral Attitudes of Lewiss Carroll," and Herbert E. Weene '61, for "Verse and Individuality: A Study in Marlovian Characterization...
Actual production was in the hands of husky young (31) George Ludwig, a graduate student who has proved himself a mechanical genius in the painstaking new art of space instrumentation. Each ounce counts, because it costs many thousands of dollars to put each ounce into orbit. The tiny, buglike components must stand enormous g forces, vibration and spin, survive violent changes of temperature...
...would like very much to nag at the U.S. conscience if he knew where to look for it. It is not at the U.S. as such that Barzun fires his bullets; it is at the modern world at large-"egalitarian democracy, mass education and journalism, the cult of art and philanthropy, and the manners coincident with these...
...being attacked while "the dissemination of its products has become a planetary frenzy." Barzun's House of Intellect is an austere conception, of which the unfashionable practices of logic, authority, discipline and learning are the pillars. The enemies of the house that Jacques built are three popular idols-art, science, and something he calls philanthropy...
Painters & Probers. By art, Barzun seems to mean a cult of the sensibility; by science, a mystical cult of facts; and by philanthropy, he means a kind of goofy general doctrine of charity that holds that no idea or person can be dismissed just because the idea is absurd or the person incompetent...