Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Math or science must elimb, rung by rung, a ladder of prerequisites, which lead to graduate courses where the brilliance of the Department's permanent staff can eventually be appreciated. Since most undergraduates never intend to carry their Math studies that far, their concern is not stimulation by genius or authority but understanding and interest created by a good teacher...
...weekly. Its founders were Nathaniel Willis, the man who helped make European travel fashionable, and George P. Morris, the man who wrote Woodman, Spare That Tree. For the provincial U.S. of 1846, their aim was high: "... to give the cream of new books, to keep a watchful lookout for genius in literature, music...
...year and a half of research, an investigating committee last week decided that they did not. To a conference of educators at Columbia's Teachers College, the University of Chicago's Stephen M. Corey, head of the committee, reported: "The assumption seems to have been that 'genius will out.' The committee believes this faith unjustified...
...give genius a better chance, Professor Corey's committee recommended that a National Commission for the Identification of Talented Youth be set up. The Commission would stage a talent hunt through every high school in the land, using tests to find the top tenth of 1% in each group (about 2,000 in the U.S.). No tests now in use satisfy the committee: tests should measure not only academic aptitude, but scientific and artistic ability, and "talent for constructive social leadership," said Dr. Corey...
Dorn plays Leopold Goronoff, as great a conductor and pianist as his name would suggest, and personally accounts for fourteen of the twenty-three Rachmaninoff tidbits. He discovers a budding young pianistic genius on a Pennsylvania farm in the person of Myra Hassman, who plays the Concerto twenty-seven times and addresses Goronoff incessantly as "Maestro." At her New York debut she plays guess what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading...