Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since there is almost no human activity that cannot be accomplished, attempted, contemplated, or escaped from on a weekend, Gunther has a lot to cover. Or to look at it another way, he has endless opportunities to quote from other Hollow Worlders whose subjects are more specialized. His book is, in fact, an anthology of the maxims of Russell Lynes, David Riesman, Helen Gurley Brown, Vance Packard, Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte...
Like many of us who have grown up Catholics, he finds Latin Scholasticism--the endless manipulation of dogma, the recitation of catechism--empty and banal. And yet he sees no comfort in what he calls the "moral relativism" that so dominates the social sciences and is embodied in the humanities by the New Criticism...
...example, discuss the Faculty booklet on examinations, ignored in the Yearbook as in the CRIMSON. It might try to say why there is a need for the Doty committee; is not General Education hunky-dory? and if not, why not? The constructive possibilities for selection and interpretation are endless. The Yearbook's "Academic Year," while not false, is too inadequate to be a true account...
...Stijl group (TIME, May 8) in the 1920s, he planned spiral buildings before Frank Lloyd Wright built the Guggenheim Museum, and proposed horizontal skyscrapers on cantilevers before Le Corbusier built them. Rarely has he realized what he has designed on paper; he has, for example, never built the "endless house," a sculpture to live in, that made his fame...
...while the Strivers are thus occupying themselves, another, much smaller group of students is vehemently scorning them. These students prefer to Scoff. They spend endless hours at their private passtime--playing pool, cards, tennis or the horses; acting, writing, carousing, or talking to friends. Rather than give themselves over to any academic system, they deny all systems violently. They only begin a paper weeks after it is due, boasting about their devilry or bemoaning their assured doom. They dip into books just before an exam and fish out some facts to fool the grader. They pick courses for their easiness...