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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poet Randall Jarrell tossed his beard in vexation and said: "To most of us, verse, any verse, is so uncongenial, so exhaustingly artificial, that I have often thought that a man could make his fortune by entirely eliminating from our culture verse of any kind. Take for example...
...Okapa, Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas ran the risk of getting kuru themselves (if it should prove infectious); lacking surgical gloves, they did autopsies barehanded. They performed them on a dining-room table in the patrol officer's quarters, often eating a meal at one end while discussing the kuru-damaged brains lying at the other. They shipped specimens to Melbourne and to the U.S. National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md. From 154 patients and their kin, they got a detailed picture of kuru's course, though no clue to its cause...
...tiny, inconspicuous figure among the frock-coated dignitaries in the great hall of Helsinki University as the Ylppo gold medal was bestowed on Harvard's Professor Clement Smith, outstanding researcher into the breathing mechanism of the newborn (he advises against spanking them). Said Disciple Smith: "It is often stated that Arvo Ylppo invented the premature baby. I doubt this, but it certainly was fortunate for premature infants that Arvo Ylppo was invented...
...more general trouble, said Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton of the University of Chicago, is that the educationists have so often distorted the doctrines of John Dewey. "Thinking begins, says Mr. Dewey, in an interest or a concern. Therefore, said the educator, our problem is to interest students, and this interpretation passed over easily into the distortion of amusing and entertaining them . . . Dewey is really saying that thinking begins in maladjustment to the environment and continues as an active, tough and difficult process . . . This was misunderstood by certain professional educators, whose influence exceeded their wisdom, to mean that...
...Springer also puts out one of the country's most influential serious dailies, conservative Die Welt (245,000), which has on its staff some of Germany's ablest political analysts. Though Die Welt usually supports Konrad Adenauer's government, Editor in Chief Hans Zehrer often reflects the views of Hamburg's world traders that Bonn should establish closer trade and diplomatic ties with Russia and Red China (where Die Welt has its own correspondent...