Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higher education today is too often characterized by a trade-school approach to knowledge. More and more students now rush through a prescribed curriculum as quickly as possible, treading a narrow tight-rope to a job or a professional school. In this era where mere factual knowledge frequently serves as an index of intelligence, the University has symbolized the broad intellectual maturation that learning should...
...changed around the Square since Lindberg began at Cambridge in 1911. And, save for clothing styles, undergraduate temper and attitude have remained constant. "I remember seeing a picture in the bank showing a line of students sporting those broad-brimmed straw 'skimmers'." Then, of course, "there was the era of the battered hat," he recalls, "before the fellows stopped wearing hats at all." Riots, or lesser displays of spring fever have also been common. "I remember one, just after they'd finished building Wigglesworth, when somebody there dropped a bag of water on a fried outside, and minutes later, there...
Eternally Quiet. At Columbia, Burns and Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower met only casually. But when Ike went to the White House, the doom criers already were predicting a new era of bread lines and Apple Marys. The three-member Council of Economic Advisers had lost professional standing under President Truman; Leon Keyserling, his chief economic adviser, was a lawyer who skillfully tailored economic conclusions to fit political ends. Ike ordered a search for the man who knew most about depressions and what causes them. Arthur Burns was chosen...
...hand, without any old school tie, the Air Force has not yet developed any horse-cavalry generals or battleship admirals, and in the immediate future, is not likely to do so. It is in the new dimension of change that the Air Force is building toward the fantastically complicated era of the supersonic airplane, the hydrogen bomb and the guided missile. It is thus that it intends to hold up its end of Admiral Mahan's word-"watchfulness...
...with the action of galvanized frogs, the dress of mountebanks, and the hue of pestilential putridity . . ." There is something terrifyingly timely in Fuseli's nightmarish mysticism. In some ways, Fuseli bridges the gap between the 18th and the 20th centuries; his shrieks and murmurs carry across the Victorian era (which merely stopped its ears) to the present. In several paintings and drawings all called The Nightmare-whose principal characters are variously a monstrous dwarf, a leering horse and a recumbent maiden-Fuseli seems as modern as Dali or Freud. Despite his inescapable similarity to his great friend ("Blake...