Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems that he raises are the most important part of his essay. Most revealing are the changes in standards of beauty that he chronicles. The mathematical and detached nude of classical Greece decays with change in attitude toward the flesh, into the bulbous and ascetic shapes of medieval art. "The very degradation the body has suffered as a result of Christian morality served to sharpen its erotic impact. The formula of the classical ideal had been more protective than any drapery; whereas the shape of the Gothic body, which suggested that it was normally clothed, gave it the impropriety...
Song Without Words. In Waukesha, Wis.. The Raconteurs, a men's writing club, staged an essay contest on "Why Men Are Better Writers Than Women," scheduled a sumptuous dinner for the winner: Mrs. Grace Woodard...
Created by the Educational Testing Service, an independent research organization in Princeton, the new examinations combine the essential features of the present aptitude and achievement tests, and include essay questions...
With effective assistance from Houston's strong corps of Minute Women, the right-wingers have waged a continuous war against teaching about the United Nations or using any UNESCO material in the schools. They succeeded in eliminating the annual U.N. essay contest, flooded the town with anti-U.N. literature, e.g., "United Nations Seizes, Rules American Cities." They have denounced such speakers as former Rhodes Scholars Stringfellow Barr and Clarence Streit, partly because some citizens decided that the Rhodes program (launched in 1903) was nothing but a scheme to promote British rule of the world. They also kept...
...University of Chicago gives especially promising students a "tutorial" year, allows them to settle upon one field and to choose courses and "planned leisure" activities related to it. To get an A.B., students must pass stiff written and oral exams and write a "Bachelor's essay." In 1954 when the program began, only one student tried it (his special interest: a comparative theology study of Tillich and Maritain). Today there are ten. ¶ Last fall Iowa's Grinnell College started "four-three" program to permit certain students to earn a fourth credit for extra independent work done...