Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while reading Dune, I realized that it was more than a brilliant revival of the Empire. Herbert had invented a complete universe, as mad and beautiful, inexplicable and frightening as this one. For a few magic moments there my own life seemed like a plausible fantasy, and Dune was real. Herbert's universe was a totality which stretched far beyond the ends of sight, an incredible system which could never be understood or explained. His characters survive by flashes of insight and prophecy, and when their intuition fails, they...
Author-Educator Herbert Kohl (36 Children) has studied the Berkeley program and concedes that "no one deep in his heart believes that this is really working yet." But he contends that it will as soon as teachers and students get over their jitters and concentrate on education; he expects the system to develop new techniques for stimulating learning among children of diverse
...conviction for which he owes much to such 19th century sociologists as Herbert Spencer and Ludwig Gurnplowicz, both of whom, without espousing war, recognized its value in shaping human civilization. "Conquest and the satisfaction of needs through the labor of the conquered," Gurnplowicz wrote, "is the great theme of human history...
...influences. The fist is the large body of professional academics, mainly psychologists like Jones and Harvard's Jerome Bruner, who act as consulting experts and planners for the public school system. The other group includes a wide range of radical or "romantic" critics-maverick academics (Goodman), teachers (John Hoh, Herbert Kohl), technological utopians (George Leonard), and others. Among these must be included Dennison, formerly a psychotherapist, then a teacher, now a writer. After his and Jones's books, anything to emerge from the perspective of either group of writers cannot amount to much more than a footnote. That...
...past the professorship has been held by such men as T. S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Ben Shahn. Sir Herbert Read. R. Buckminster Fuller, and Pier Luigi Nervi. This year the chair is held by Lionel Trilling, the noted critie...