Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's attitude towards moral excellence was purely punitive, its attitude towards physical virtue was the reverse. Rumplestiltskin found that while the University encouraged athletics for all, it encouraged the athletic endeavors of the naturally proficient with especial fervor. The most excellent athletes were given rewards of cash and kudos, and put into the entertainment business on weekends. And yet, strangely, the University did not seem to believe that excellence was the only standard, for it also required the physically incompetent to perform alarming feats during their first year of residence. It seemed to be a case of "everybody...
...class he lectured with such fervor that he once fell clean off his podium. "He transformed Yale's art gallery from a static storehouse of paintings into a bustling teaching museum, established the school of architecture and design as a foremost trainer of museum directors. But the chief purpose behind his flamboyance was to "set my students on fire." He did not favor one form of art or one period, tried to give his students both a taste for excellence and a taste for tolerance. "There are many ways of expressing the human spirit," he would...
...ground rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for President Eisenhower to call Confederate General Jeb Stuart a headline hunter, and for Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to label Pickett's charge as ''monstrous." But when Ike and Monty jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ''sacked'' for their blunders at Gettysburg (TIME, May 20). they committed themselves irrevocably to battle...
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...employees who meet the aptitude requirements. Other industries in many areas are making a direct attack on the idea that only the backward go into vocational training. In Cleveland the big machine-tool makers rush the high-school graduating classes for candidates for their training programs with all the fervor used for seniors in engineering colleges. In Fort Worth Convair hires high-school graduates to work half a day and spend the other half, with pay, attending college-level technical and engineering classes to get credit toward college degrees...