Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mountain speaks to mountain...
...mountain, full of shade...
...ever understood him-old Philosopher John Dewey. A stormy petrel wherever he taught, Dr. Rice quarreled with the University of Nebraska, was kicked out of Rollins College (TIME, June 19, 1933), two years ago abruptly severed relations with his own dream college, North Carolina's Black Mountain. Now the professor is back in the news with a Harper prize book, I Came Out of the 18th Century ($3). His brooding, mordant autobiography reveals him as a brilliant critic of teaching and an acid critic of teachers...
...Rollins, where he scandalized folks by going swimming in white trunks, and at Black Mountain, where he used to take long walks in the woods with an escort of five dogs, roly-poly Professor Rice cut a slightly comic figure. But there was nothing comic about his mind. A preacher's son, nephew of U.S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, John Rice grew up in a family of South Carolina individualists and became one himself, a rebel among rebels. He was a star pupil at Tennessee's famed Webb School, breezed through Tulane in three years, went to Oxford...
Selection of personnel for service with mountain forces for the United States Army, suspended July 8, has been resumed, Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Burean announced Friday. The announcement came originally from the National Ski Patrol System, official agency for recommending men for this branch of the service...