Word: osborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Work on this year's review and economic estimate for 1955 got under way in November, under the direction of Senior Editor Joe Purtell. Associate Editor Osborn Elliott, writer of the story, and Jane Meyerhoff. the researcher assigned to the project, began drafting the first of the detailed queries that went out to TIME correspondents...
...Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack's new comedy, Festival, starring Vanessa Brown; G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan, with Jean Arthur; Sayonara: A Japanese Romance, a musical adaptation of James A. Michener's novel by Josh Logan, Paul Osborn and Irving Berlin...
...educational crusades, Osborn's has been one of the most curious. A soft-spoken teacher-turned-adman (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), he has become convinced that education pays too little attention to imagination, and he has taken it upon himself to do something about it. Last year he wrote a textbook called Applied Imagination (Scribner; $3.75). drew up a special teacher's manual to go with it. Since then he has been writing to hundreds of educators and industrialists, has spoken often at workshops and banquets. Though some campuses have dismissed his course...
...Universal as Memory. Osborn's main idea is a simple one. "There is," says he, "overwhelming proof that imagination is as universal as memory.'' The only trouble is that most people never get a chance to find out how creative they can be. The whole purpose of Osborn's course is not to turn out Einsteins, but to provide ordinary people with a number of hints and devices for giving their imaginations full play...
...tackling a problem, says Osborn, a student must first learn to suspend the "judicial" part of his mind, for nothing is more inhibiting to the free play of ideas than to stop after each one and say: "No, that's no good." Once a person has accumulated a "pile of alternatives," he can then make a decision. Meanwhile, he must indulge in a process called "brainstorming"-letting ideas pour out, no matter how preposterous...