Word: best
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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...
...Crimson has one of the best catchers in the league in Captain John Davis. Over vacation he stopped four attempted steals with his throws to second and hit 355, batting in seven runs. He will be batting in the clean-up position this afternoon...
President of the Club, Bill Morse stated yesterday that according to reports, the Wanderers, though not exceptional rugby players, are a very scrappy team. It should be a close game, and the Crimson team will have to be at its best...
...Phillies will probably finish in last place, but they are not that bad a team. They have the batting champion in Richie Ashburn, an aging but effective pitcher in Robin Roberts, and some young players who could come on. Wally Post and Harry Anderson are the best of the young players and Ray Semproch heads a string of competent pitchers
...Western Democrats vow that they will demand that everybody sign an electoral "loyalty oath"--and the South is planning not to sign. 1960 is still far away, and a great deal depends on the progress of integration in the South. At the moment however, all signs point to at best an unfavorable compromise for the South, and at worst a party split that would probably be more damaging to the South than to the Democratic party...