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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progressive" jazzman Stan Kenton, accompanied by songstress June Christy, will expound his views on the future of jazz as an American art form tonight at 11 o'clock on WHRV. Kenton copped the current "Downbeat" and Metronome" awards as the best band of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briefs of Today's News | 3/9/1948 | See Source »

Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, will expound an original theory of "The Real Roots of Russian-American Tension" to the members of the Social Relations Society, the Graduate Social Relations Colloquim, and all interested persons this afternoon at 4:15 o'clock in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Speaks This Afternoon | 12/17/1947 | See Source »

...Reason frequently attempts to shock the reader with pointless vulgarity (". . .a faint, sour reek of vomit came from her delicate mouth. Mathieu inhaled it ecstatically"). Existentialists may deny that such scenes are introduced for sensationalism's sake, but they have not explained why it is necessary to expound their doctrine solely from a worm's eye view of life. What one of the characters calls "the freemasonry of the urinal" will seem, to many readers, an accurate description of Sartre's own books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Existentialist Purgatory | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Wanted: Freedom. Last week, as he stepped up to receive the Passano award in Baltimore's historic Osler Hall of Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Ernest Goodpasture saw an opportunity to expound some theories about research developed in the years on the "Endless Frontier." In a philosophic, rambling and often brilliant address, he deplored the fact that researchers are too often hamstrung by special "projects," are not permitted to follow their own keen noses. Exploratory research, said he, entails relatively great financial risk, but these risks must be met if medicine is to serve humanity and not a social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Egg & He | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...General Education Committee's celebrated report have spread everywhere. But only in the confines of the College can its vital significance yet be even partially realized. Plans are under way for introduction of totally new courses conceived and planned in a storm of publicity. Men of letters expound the General Education Report much as the learned theologian quotes the Bible in seeking guidance. Yet one wonders whether, when all the shouting dies, the same professors, with their same limitations, will not be giving much the same courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quo Vadimus? | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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