Word: barreness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PURELY ACADEMIC (304 pp.)-String-fellow Barr-Simon & Schuster...
Perhaps no educator willing to rush into print thinks as little of U.S. education as Stringfellow Barr. Now professor of humanities at Rutgers, he has taught at his alma mater, the University of Virginia, pioneered (with Hutchins and Adler) the Great Books idea, served as president of Great Books-oriented St. John's College in Maryland. At 60, "Winkie" Barr has committed a first novel. Not surprisingly, it is about life among professors, and even less surprisingly, it says that U.S. professors, students, college presidents and trustees are a sorry...
Bill Lewis, Bob Schwartzman, and Dick Nye were all unsuccessful in their matches, while teammates Neil Slater-Booth and George Lemann won. In the closest of the five matches, Lemann lost his first two games to Joe Barr. Behind 14-2 in what proved the deciding game of the match, Lemann came back to defeat Barr 17-16, andchalk up one of the Crimson's two wins...
...Grossi Bros, cites manufacturers' reports that factory sales of automatic washers are down 28%, conventional washers 32%, electric dryers 44%, refrigerators 20%, dishwashers 32%, stoves 32%. Another worry is increasing competition from conventional retailers who, instead of sitting back, cut prices right and left. St. Louis' Famous-Barr Co. has been matching discount prices since 1954, when it offered to equal any price reported by a customer, and has the capital to buy carloads of appliances at lower prices than most small discounters can command. Many other big stores from coast to coast hold "warehouse sales" to take...
...executives were workers in an experiment designed to bridge the gap between the practical world of U.S. business and the world of philosophical ideas. "Whether it's so or not," says Montgomery Ward's President John Barr, "every executive thinks that he does not do enough thinking." To give U.S. executives a chance to think and talk in a relaxed atmosphere. Container Corp. of America Chairman Walter Paepcke, 61, in 1950 set up the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a nonprofit foundation that runs living quarters, executive seminars, a new health center, and a spate of lectures, forums...