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...Madness and non-intelligence is not a sufficient answer to the excess intelligence of today's "Mega-Machine," philosopher Lewis Mumford warned last night...
...feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace was. Until the start of the 18th century, rooms in even the grandest houses led into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford has pointed out, a lady's bedchamber still served as a reception room for her guests; only gradually did it become a retreat (boudoir is derived from the French bonder, to sulk). Privacy became valued as individualism and the ego became valued. In earlier times, retreating into solitude...
...when the 1030 new members of the Class of '41 entered Harvard in September, 1937, much of this was still ahead. Deans reminded them that the fall hour exams would soon be separating the men from the boys. Howard Mumford Jones, Chairman of the American history committee, started a special program of extracurricular reading for freshman, because he said he felt that a required course in American history would amount to "indoctrination worthy of Hitler...
During the discussions with Rudolph, Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 read a letter from Howard Mumford Jones, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, complaining that the fading of "No Parking" signs on Francis Ave. had resulted in the continual clogging of his driveway there...
Post-Civil War America was a graceless murk of brownstones, soft-coal soot and ungainly walnut furniture. It was Victorian without even the fun of having royalty, and Critic Lewis Mumford summed up the period in a phrase, "the Brown Decades." By contrast, Europe attracted droves of artists in search of more romantic sensibilities. Of these exiles, none found herself more at home in France, while remaining essentially as American as a Henry James heroine, than Mary Cassatt. As her palette brightened, she became the only U.S. expatriate accepted by the fiercely iconoclastic French impressionists, and was invited to show...