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...dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quizzical Quiz | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Ickes conclusions on columnists: 1) "As quasi-public figures themselves, it is their duty to be factual and truthful"; 2) "A grave responsibility rests upon publishers and editors to deny the use of their columns to writers who take liberties with the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Calumny | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...teaching also Dr. Cushing was hard, factual. He never spiced his lectures with humor, never unbent. During his entire career, he taught about 2,500 men from all over the world. To many of them he seemed a cold, reticent perfectionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BRAINMAN | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...through participating experience." Hutchins is not needed to point out that giving the student what he wants can be carried too far. Dr. Prosser, with his deadly scientific bias, has a mortal fear of what he calls "preachment," which he lumps together with "untried theories and mere factual learning" as the evils of traditional education. One can hope that his sterile, moral, practical youth never becomes an overwhelming reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STREAMLINER | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...almost Babylonian Old Post Office, built in 1869-78 after a fantastic architectural competition from which the Government chose not one but 15 winning designs, used the best features of all 15. Art project researchers and Writer Elizabeth McCausland collaborated on furnishing such factual tid-bits for each of the 97 pictures. Publisher and printer apparently collaborated not enough, allowing some reproductions to suffer from dandruff in the blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Abbott's New York | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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