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...professional educator," Dean Simpson said last week. "But I do know an educated man when I see one, and I shall try to see that we turn out that kind of student-namely, one free of cant and humbug. The ordinary American boy who will only make a million in later life, the ordinary girl who wants a husband as well as a diploma, are as welcome here as the Quiz...
Historian-Educator Jacques Barzun can be a mean critter when aroused, as he has been of late by contemporary prose (a "mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax"). Higher Learning (he could find only "an immense amount of Lower Learning" in the U.S.), and the Ph.D. racket (TIME, Nov. 25, 1957). In American Scholar Barzun castigates his latest victim: detective stories, which, he says, have fallen on evil days, turning increasingly into "novels of haze and daze...
...modern medicine-more and more Americans are living beyond the Biblical threescore years and ten, and beyond fourscore. What makes for a long life? What makes a long life livable? And useful? In this week's cover story on Nonagenarian Amos Alonzo Stagg, Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant reports on the medical progress that has prolonged human life. To supplement the story, TIME presents a gallery of U.S. elders, photographed by LIFE'S Alfred Eisenstaedt (who is only 59). "Eisie," who has probably photographed more famous people than any other photographer, carried his autograph book as usual...
...people of Prades are unlikely to forget the most distinguished of their adopted sons wherever he may be. Casals' former landlord has not yet removed from the walls of the cottage its widely famed label-"El Cant dels Ocells" (in Catalan, The Song of the Birds). It is the name of the popular folk air with which Cellist Casals, playing alone, will end this year's festival just as he ended all the others...
...exhilaration felt by TIME's Gilbert Cant after a few seconds' exposure to weightlessness [June 9]: May not weightlessness of longer duration produce an empyreal euphoria comparable to the "rapture of the deep"? What if buoyancy "to the point of exaltation" makes a modern inhabitant of the heavens decide...