Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It is wrong and simplistic to think that, simply because these "modern students" are not the same kind of dedicated academics their predecessors were, they are antagonistically anti-intellectual. To be sure, they resent the emphasis on professional training, on medieval scholasticism, and on ethereal abstractions. But this does not...
Nixon learned other lessons from his joust with John Kennedy, and he is cannily applying them to his primary battles against Michigan's George Romney. The former Vice President's campaign to date in New Hampshire and Wisconsin has been relaxed and understated, designed to encourage the image...
Steinberg knows enough about the characters of the Bible to put them down with learned insight. Joshua, he says, was "the first real pushy prophet"; Lot was "the first Biblical voyeur"; Jezebel "was immortalized by Frankie Laine." As for the Jonah story, "the Gentiles-as is their wont from time...
Come Home, Bobby. It was either that or the cement plant. All the Hulls learned to skate before they learned to read. Judy was such a hard-nosed hockey player that the boys around Point Anne once told her parents they wouldn't play with her any more because...
Ignore the Brass. The narrowness of Swarowsky's regimen is intended as a counterbalance to the beginner's natural effusiveness and flamboyance. "Once the student has learned the basic techniques," he explains, "he is free to develop his genius." But acquiring the basis can be pretty harrowing. Mixed...