Word: developers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he has only been master of Kirkland House for one full year, no great "Taylor" legends or "Taylor" traditions have had time to develop. But both students and faculty are unanimous in voicing a warm respect for him. As one voluble staff member put it, "We feel we've got the best master in the system, and that's all there...
...soon keen "to forget all knowledge, live my organic life, flourish like a vegetable." But when Egmont is well on his way to becoming an amoeba, Olga gets panicky, has him insulin-and electro-shocked back to everyday life. Egmont rather sheepishly admits that maybe man had better develop the mind he has rather than try to lose it in matter. The author's further notion that mental progress is some kind of communal process is underlined by a lengthy subplot about a company strike that contains all the solidarity-forever, to-the-barricades cliches...
...important distinctions are made between Wharton and the various other undergraduates, however, and the line between them is noted mostly from above. Indeed, little distinction could be expected to develop, because such would give unaccustomed recognition to the academic side of college life. Extra-curricular activities and social life are much more interesting...
...Campbell--whom Batteau claims has "more ideas per cubic inch than any man I've ever known"--says, "the necessity for philosophic speculation is not being met in out society. The old tools of thought are wearing thin, and new ones have to be developed. Old thoughts are beginning to yield diminishing returns. The job of the speculator is to develop these new tools of thought, so vital to progress...
Martin as chief engineer (1915); of a heart ailment, a month after he retired as president, became board chairman of Bell Aircraft Co.; in Buffalo. Larry Bell helped develop an early "bomber" before joining Martin (converted from a Martin exhibition plane, stocked with dynamite-filled gas pipes and sold to Pancho Villa), by 1935 had launched his own firm (estimated 1956 sales: $200 million). Planemaker Bell in 1944 produced the U.S.'s first jet fighter, the Airacomet, made helicopters, missiles and the famed X-1 and X-2 rocket planes, which have broken all speed, altitude records...