Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what chiefly upset Educator Hutchins was a radioman's suggestion that the low U.S. cultural level, if it is low, is primarily the fault of educators. Wrote Hutchins: "Even a perfect educational system would have a hard time setting up an effective cultural opposition to the storm of trash and propaganda that now beats upon the American from birth . . . Comic books and Betty Grable, the Lone Ranger and Milton Berle are the diet of our children." The only hope, Hutchins thinks, is subscription radio or heavily endowed university networks-neither of which seems likely. His gloomy conclusion...
Cornell's newest professor is seventyish, trim, and as peppery as ever. She fondly refers to a friend or an associate as "old buzzard." Exacting to a fault, Dr. L'Esperance sees things beginning to go her way. Since 1946, juniors from Cornell's Department of Preventive Medicine have had to take a session at the Memorial's Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic. This summer, the clinic at Memorial will get its first internes. Doctors who get this training, Dr. L'Esperance hopefully believes, may yet be able to prevent many a cancer by catching...
...South Carolinian, Max Steele, whose Debby was chosen by a jury of knowing hands: Short Story Writer Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott, and San Francisco Chronicle Critic Joseph Henry Jackson. A few of the Harper prizewinners (Wescott's The Grandmothers and Paul Horgan's The Fault of Angels) were widely and deservedly cheered, but the 1950 winner is not in their class...
...Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...
...fault of Speed Lamkin '48 that the decay of Southern aristocracy and its struggle against industrialism are old stuff to most of us by now. One cannot expect a novelist in his early twenties to present many fresh insights into situations that have been so completely explored by more seasoned writers...