Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Informed Alarm. Last week, running the college with casual, kindly autocracy, waving to undergraduates as he stomped about the campus, Carleton's President Laurence McKinley Gould went about the business of finding the money. His method: to bedevil the rich with reports of the U.S.'s conspicuous complacency-much as Economist Thorstein Veblen (Carleton '80) once hounded them with charges of "conspicuous consumption." A scholar who would be concerned about U.S. educational standards if Russia were inhabited solely by musk oxen, Gould does not hesitate to point with alarm at the Red satellites long after the furor...
Iron-grey, burly and vigorous at 62, Larry Gould speaks of penguins-Mrs. Gould and he share their home with a stuffed one-Sputniks and education with more authority than most. A topflight geologist and geographer, he was second-in-command of Admiral Byrd's 1928-30 Antarctic expedition, now heads the U.S. Antarctic program for the International Geophysical Year. Other qualifications for informed alarm: Gould is a trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, national president of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the National Science Board...
Inside Criticism. Standards at Carleton are high; each student must take at least two years of English, science and foreign language. There are no soft majors; in mathematics, chemistry and biology, outstanding students do original research. Yet President Gould is a scientist who quotes from Archibald MacLeish's J.B. without making it appear a stunt, and the humanities at Carleton-particularly English, music and history-are if anything better than the sciences...
Validated. In Seattle, when Judge Vernon Gould asked a defendant if his driver's license was valid, the man said: "No, sir. It's up to date...
...strictly orthodox is the nonconformist that it is impossible for him to say "a good word about Dulles, Nixon, Lyndon Johnson . . . James Gould Cozzens, or a bad one about Henry James, Adlai Stevenson, Lionel Trilling or Freud; to express approval of any television show (except Omnibus, Ed Murrow or Sid Caesar) or of any American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit...