Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university meddling in the affairs of secondary schools--and such objections are not ill-founded. Obviously the role of the Harvard Committee is not that of revamping faulty preparatory schools. Remoteness from the problems involved prevent any active correction on the secondary level by a University committee. Nonetheless, if the recommendations for high and prep schools are not to die aborning, the sincere proponents of General Education for the entire "free society" will have to saddle up their horses and get busy. A committee for open and active study in cooperation with the secondary schools might well be formed...
...parcel of the same problem: bettering the physical environment and thus the well-being of Man. This is his point of departure from Wright, for whom he has the greatest admiration. Although a rebel to the core, past master of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school, Wright nonetheless remains an individualist devoted solely to personal artistic triumph. The greatest glory for Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair of his own design atop a windy...
...arrange the cast in the order of its excellence would be a difficult task: nonetheless, the fact stands clear that Miss Claire Gilman, as a visitor from Dublin, is the prettiest actress to be seen recently in these parts, while John Mannick, as the leading man of the repertory company, is one of the funniest, although he is made up to resemble a slightly pasty Peter Lorre...
...Committee and its untutored advisees. Particularly in the social sciences, the advisor is not an indispensable man. Students seeking his wisdom have all too frequently found their questions better answered by table-talk acquaintances. This does not imply that some advisors have not helped their charges, for many have; nonetheless, the advisor-student relationship suffers from many inadequacies. Lack of confidence is enhanced by the advisor's frank inability to help the student on many problems, especially in the selection of courses which fall outside the advisor's own special field of concentration. And many an advisor is only himself...
...written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the few men of genius who have made moving pictures. It is a great change and, many critics will feel, a great comedown from Eisenstein's early films, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old & New. Nonetheless it is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence...