Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollis, who also endowed the Hollis without some charitable assistance." Professorship of Divinity and the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, further wished that the administration "avoid nominating now and hereafter Dunces or Rakes as Persons not fit to partake of my Bounty...
...does a man write a bestselling historical novel fit for a movie version? Before a Boston TV camera last week five nimble minds tossed ideas back and forth for such a book glorifying President Chester Alan Arthur, whose plain life left plenty of room for fictional embroidery. The object: to demonstrate "brainstorming" (TIME, Feb. 18), a technique of group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur...
...that he was bringing Annie Oakley and the Wild West to the Danube shore outraged critics. They rushed fiercely to defend the virtue of their Merry Widows, the dignity of their Countess Maritzas and the artistic solvency of their Gypsy Barons. American musicals, said critics, were "pornographic" and not fit for "Kulturstaaten." Furthermore, the government-subsidized Volksoper should be playing native Austrian composers. (Annie's defenders pointed out that native operetta composers have not written a note worth hearing for decades...
...atom, man has suddenly found in his hands the power to destroy or recreate his world as he sees fit. How, if at all, this knowledge makes itself felt in the lives of thoughtful people, and what changes, if any, it must work in the vast pattern of human interaction, are the problems Theodore Morrison treats in his second novel...
...chimpanzees that follow. They pout. They bicycle. They smoke. They applaud themselves. I have nothing against chimpanzees--they are certainly more amusing than their glowing trainer--but they belong to jungles, zoos, or classrooms. On stage, although they fit into the vaudeville world neatly, they merely prove that run-of-the-mill vaudeville deserves to be left in its grave...