Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also a mistake to pretend that students are left entirely free from proselytizing and indoctrination in the classroom, but are only presented the issues and allowed to decide for themselves. We are persuaded in many areas: the scientific method is urged upon us, as is logic and rationality; democracy is often preached, and totalitarianism almost universally inveighed against; and in the humanities, standards of taste are handed down in a fashion that sometimes approaches coercion. Outside the classroom, some teachers feel even freer in pontificating on these and related questions, but there is almost no moral guidance or consideration...
...time Frager graduated with honors from Columbia (major: Russian) he had already won several piano prizes, and taken a turn about a European concert circuit. What mainly impressed Leventritt judges was his bold and apparently effortless attack, his ability to strike emotional fires that sharpened rather than distorted the logic of any piece he was playing. While almost everybody else fidgeted nervously at last week's finals, Pianist Frager retired to the artists' room, snapped out the lights and sat quietly in the pitch dark. "I was thinking," he explained later, "about the music...
...Stuart Davis, by E. C. Goossen, traces the logic that leads Davis to paint as he does. Davis' sharp, brassy, eye-hurting brand of abstraction is something all his own, however, and not easily analyzed...
Entering Harvard at 14, he followed the regular curriculum: "a little Latin and less Greek, and not much mathematics, with a sprinkling of rhetoric, logic, metaphysics, and ethics." At his graduation in 1790, he delivered the English Oration, highest academic honor in the class. His moral character, according to testimony of his classmates, stayed at the same high level...
...this Chicago Negro tenement, but the characters who live there light up Lorraine Hansberry's first play with love, humor and dreams of escape. J.B. Tailored by Archibald MacLeish, Job in grey flannels cuts an impressive theatrical figure, even if he does lack the fierce language and logic of his Biblical ancestor...