Word: masters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...educators will come to recognize that a balanced, liberal arts college education can be absorbed by and helpful to almost everyone, provided that the pressures of grading and lock-step progress are eased. Instead of flunking out, students will be able to stay with a subject until they master it. Mayhew may be overly sanguine in predicting that by 1980 "parents will have accepted the fact that childhood or youth will have extended to 30 to 35 years of age." But with increased life expectancy, he argues, the 30-year-old graduate can still anticipate 45 years of productive adult...
Died. Crane Brinton, 70, longtime (1923-68) Harvard history professor, whose books on Western political thought, and particularly on revolution (A Decade of Revolution: 1789-99, Nietzsche), proved him a master in his field; after a long illness; in Cambridge, Mass. One of the most popular of contemporary historians, Brinton was also one of the most perceptive. In The Anatomy of Revolution (1938), a study of four major upheavals, from the English rebellion of 1640 to the Russian Revolution of 1917, he spelled out his now-familiar theory that revolutions stem from hope not despair, from the promises of progress...
...moment, the only room in the house without paintings is the master bedroom. Carmen Kreeger has banned all art there so that when visitors come, there will be no excuse to invade their hosts' privacy. Civic groups and philanthropic organizations are already badgering the Kreegers with requests to send groups to view the collection. In time, says Kreeger, he may well make both house and collection into a museum. But for the time being, the Kreegers would like to keep it mainly for themselves and their friends...
...motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world...
...transcendent strength of Joanne Woodward that the film achieves a classic stature. There is no gesture too minor for her to master. She peers out at the world with the washed-out eyes of a hunted animal. Her walk is a ladylike retreat, a sign of a losing battle with time and diets and fashion. Her drab voice quavers with a brittle strength that can command a student but break before a parent's will. By any reckoning, it is Actress Woodward's best performance...