Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matters of belief, I found that the Protestants appeared at a disadvantage. Profiting by this fact, I want my church to know why it is Protestant, what are the distinctive tenets of the Protestant branch of the Christian Church, and how indigenous and basic Protestantism is to the genius of the Christian faith...
...strongly encouraged a child's intellectual curiosity he would learn faster than a jack rabbit runs. Mother Sidis, also Russian-born, was a physician,† A specialist in abnormal psychology, proud Father Sidis filled scientific journals with articles about his prodigious son, wrote a book (Philistine and Genius) urging other parents to adopt his own methods of intellectual forced feeding. "To delay is a mistake and wrong to the child," he declared. "We can at that early period awaken a love of knowledge which will persist through life...
...Walter Gropius, former guiding genius of Germany's modernist Bauhaus (liquidated by Hitler), now head of Harvard's Architecture Department. Gropius "fundamentally offers nothing more novel than the lally column and the two-by-four timber." He is "hurting our architecture by advocating a philosophy which doesn't belong here...
...cities or is it merely that he objects to intelligent, experienced students of cities expressing an opinion in a field in which he is trying to secure full control?" Barbara Lewis of Trenton, N.J. compared Moses to a pulp magazine reader who presumes to attack Shakespeare and Tolstoy. "The genius of Saarinen and Gropius will fortunately long survive this stupid Philistine outburst. Intelligent Americans will blush to think that this is the reception we accord distinguished European artists, and that the grossness of Mr. Moses is the measure of our understanding of city planning." Cried one Bernard Mazel: "[Moses...
...been as short-lived as the Maharajah's memory had it not been for the use Forster made of it. He studied India and the Indians, rulers and ruled. Out of these, and by the gift of some moment of inspiration that lifted his sar donic talent to genius, Forster wrote A Passage to India. Its history has been a 3 remarkable as the book itself, or its author...