Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surpassed itself when it got the 6th Earl of Cottenham to write about the Phantom III. No fool, the Earl has worked in the aviation department of Vickers Ltd., the leading British armorers, but his description of the time he first drove a Phantom III has become a little classic of Mayfairese. Its title: The Well Behaved Great-Grandson of a Ghost...
...treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath the car as the road wheels rose and fell, but the classic shape of the well-known radiator in front of me scarcely pitched. And watching my rear passengers in the driving mirror, I never once saw them leave their seats; they were merely lifted smoothly up and down, and not much at that...
...excessively modest, he did not secure real fame until after his death in 1890, when, through the efforts of his pupils, who include the greatest of modern French composers, his works were really brought before the public. Franck represents a break from the Wagnerian romanticism and a return to classic models which he uses as a vehicle for the expression of his own religious personality. His D minor Symphony is perhaps the best example of this religious feeling which almost reaches an ecstasy at times. The work has three movements, all scored in an harmonic style so rich that...
President Hutchins of the University of Chicago wants to revive the scholarship of ancient Rome and Athens. In the current "Harper's" he takes sharp issue with Mr. Conant, and offers as the ideal General Education the study of rhetoric, logic, mathematics and the classic books. The President is headed in the right direction, but he is on the wrong road...
Besides tuning the mind, a General Education gives a cultural background. This President Hutchins claims to spring from first hand study of the classic authors, whose books have "the premanent truths and the common elements of men". Herein lies the danger of falling off Scylla into Charybdis. The exclusive use of original writings can be just as "degrading" as reliance on corrupt text-books. For example Newton's "Principia" and Marx's "Das Kapital" are excessively difficult to understand and they are crammed with irrelevancies and theories now known to be wrong. It is as waste of time and effort...