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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe and which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the Questionnaire | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...agnostic's view came in a close second; after it came the traditional Christian formulation and then the belief in "a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe...which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call 'God.'" And 33 people felt moved to sketch their own conceptions of the Deity since the poll hopelessly failed to offer them a satisfactory approximation...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...this reasoning, all men working at full throttle are "gifted." In a status-conscious nation, the idea is sometimes hard to get across. Conant's transmitter: the "comprehensive" high school, a social melting pot throwing rich and poor, dull and bright together. In ideal form, thinks Conant, it should give every kind of student as good an education as he might get in a school designed just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Inspector General | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Modern Jazz Quartet, a fine, precise team of arrangement-conscious musicians led by Pianist John Lewis, who make jazz sound like a 19th century tone poem. With a sharp, clear vibes, a versatile piano, a bass and a set of traps, the quartet warmed up with a cool version of I'll Remember April, approached mastery in its last offering, a three-part number (The Singer, Harlequin, Contessa) delivered in a boogie-woogie, bass-led tempo and highlighted by an atonal, polyphonic piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: An Island of Jazz | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...mechanic occasionally drives his car.) Mather is also the nation's lowest-paid public university president ($15,000 a year). But the propaganda cut deep; Mather resigned largely to "stop this personal monkey business" (he will stay through next June). To Educator Mather, it seems unlikely that culture-conscious Massachusetts will lose one of its oddest distinctions-spending less (2.32%) of the tax dollar for higher education than any other state in the Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Massachusetts Morass | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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