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...philosopher worthy of the name," Marcel asserted, refuses to submit to the negative attitudes and disillusionments which constantly confront him. He clings to his capacity for wonderment "despite everything surrounding him, and even within him, that tends to dispel...

Author: By John A. Rice, | Title: Marcel Delivers First James Lecture | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...anti-jockism at Harvard is as bad as anti-intellectualism; neither type of personality under attack really exists per se at Harvard, and there is no reason why a varsity athlete can't dispel the erroneous triad of stero-types by joining a final club and getting A's. To those who ask "What the hell are you doing down at that wet, muddy field with a bunch of robot-animals when you could be expanding your knowledge by reading or studying?" the athlete can reply "Accumulating a college experience" with as much validity and pride as a member...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Myth of the 'Jock' and Intellectual Snobbery | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

...dispel any pious delusions that the Symphony Hall Holy Week program, presented by the Boston Symphony and the two University choruses, was a sacred one. Neither Bruckner's Te Deum, Wagner's Good Friday Spell from Parsifal nor Faure's Requiem limit themselves to liturgical and theological ends. Their Christianity is a useful vehicle for the composers' larger musical or intellectual notions (if indeed the ideas in the Wagner or Faure are really Christian...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Harvard Choruses Sing Faure, Bruckner | 4/10/1961 | See Source »

...danger in what is a harmless and . If enough people take seriously, the result an influx of admissions every bit as dull and as the colleges the author . (On the encouraging it should be added picture of a consciously Birmingham on the book could dispel most thoughts The Ivy League has done nothing to interrupt the flow of very bad books about American colleges...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: The Ivy League: Unvarying Mediocrity? | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel completely any snivelling doubts that things are getting better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excelsior | 2/27/1961 | See Source »

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