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Purchased Flowers. Significantly, M.I.T.'s panel on this subject was called "Specialization in 20th Century Education." So complex has 20th Century technology grown that it requires an increasing number of specially trained men to keep it going. So rapidly has the fund of scientific knowledge increased that it has become impossible for one man to comprehend all of it even in outline form. The result has been an increasing number of trained people who know their own field and little else-a type of what Ortega y Gasset calls the "learned ignoramus...
...according to booksellers, no discernible number of those who buy The Seven Storey Mountain feel themselves called to contemplation. In Boston, where booksellers estimate that 85% of Merton's buyers are Catholics, readers have objected that the faith he writes about is too emotional, and not sufficiently based on cold reason. Commonest objections of Boston Protestants: "A life of contemplation is all very fine, but it doesn't help solve any of the world's problems...
...operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given up, but I have exercised an enormous amount of determination...
...Lost and wrote (in The New Yorker): "If his editors will only strap him down tight, shoot him full of morphine, and, while he is helpless, perform some major operations not on him but on his prose, Mr. Farrell's effectiveness will increase, and so will the number of his readers." Either the publishers let Fadiman's prayer go unheeded or Farrell refused to submit to the operation. More than ten years and twelve books later, the Farrell prose is still a better cure for insomnia than almost anything else between covers. His new novel...
...varsity victories over North Carolina last Monday were scored by Howie Swartzman, number six singles player, and by the first doubles team of Bud Ager and Captain Ted Bullard. North Carolina and Harvard had hoped to play a second match on Tuesday but a rainstorm flooded the courts...