Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable as his skill. He set himself no less a task than to sculpt "a plastic history of my time," and the hundreds of notables who sat for him ranged from Joseph Conrad to Frank Sinatra, from Gandhi to Mussolini. A little more than a year ago, at 68, bush-bearded Jo Davidson journeyed to Israel and found inspiration for some of his best busts. The new nation, he said, "confirmed my belief that life is eternal. It was like a phoenix rising out of the ashes...
...Bush Criticism...
Questioning Conant's assertion, John N. D. Bush, professor of English, said, "I cannot say that I recognize what Mr. Conant has in mind in dismissing attachment to antiquarianism and 'gentleman's education,' since I don't know where or by whom such aims are cherished. If exponents of the humanities ever indulge in 'hand wringing,' it is because of the pressure and frequently distorted values of a technological and positivistic age and the doctrine that there is only one kind of truth, the kind that can be verified in the laboratory...
...Bush denied that "anyone conceived of the humanities as a battlefield for the cognoscenti." He added that "the study of the humanities requires knowledge of various kinds and involves differences of understanding as the sciences also...
...World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served as consultant for Major General Leslie Groves, was the No. I intermediary for scientists, generals and industrialists who helped fashion the Abomb. Since the war's end, he has spoken out forcefully for universal military training. Harvard this week announced Conant's retirement, effective Sept. 1, 1953> when...