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...Negroes. It is an old, dingy, unsanitary, ill-equipped building across the street from The Lucky Pawnbroker's Exchange. Built in 1902, and used as a white school until 1928, Shaw has an L-shaped playground too small for a ball diamond, a welding shop turned into a makeshift gymnasium, a science laboratory fitted out with a Bunsen burner and a bowl of goldfish...
...with the premise that art has ceased to be mainly connected with religion: "The cult of Science and Reason [is] not just another metamorphosis of religious sentiment, but its negation." Modern painters, he adds, make art itself a sort of substitute for religion. "Modern art . . . does not sponsor any makeshift absolute, but. at least in the artist's eyes, has stepped into its-the absolute's-place...
...several groups, numbering from 100 to 200 each, were taken from the cells each night. The prisoners, hands tied behind their backs, were herded into line beside open trenches and shot. As U.N. forces threatened the city, the Communists resorted to more expedient methods, dumped bodies into makeshift trenches. Others were sealed into caves or jammed down wells (see NEWS IN PICTURES). Estimated casualties: from 5,000 to 7,500, including 42 U.S. soldiers. Said the Army's report: "For murderous barbarism, the Taejon massacre will be recorded in the annals of history along with the rape of Nanking...
...this bustling new community, the 2,500 hutments and 40-odd compounds of Indian Village lay sprawling across barren ridges and hillsides. In the compounds, some 22,500 desperate anti-Communist Chinese and North Korean P.W.s were killing time, giving one another anti-Communist classes and pep talks, chipping makeshift daggers from broken urinals, shouting "Death to Mao the Dog Communist!" for the benefit of passersby...
Higher education in the U.S. is chaotic and is bogged down in makeshift adjustments to environment, too much vocational specialization and lack of a basic philosophy. This is the theme of Robert Maynard Hutchins' new book, The Conflict in Education (Harper; $2), published this week. Educator Hutchins, longtime (1929-51) head of the University of Chicago and now associate director of the Ford Foundation, warns that unless the universities begin preparing students to participate in the "Great Conversation that began with the dawn of history and continues at the present day," the outlook for Western civilization is indeed grim...