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...rejoiced that we had outgrown the aftermath of the Civil War. Those funny figures at parade-rest look absurdly old-fashioned to us now. But do you know the most stolid and wooden and expressionless of them was in a way better sculpture than the wild things that we are setting up today...
...written an Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports, the Pro Arte Quartet from Belgium and the Roth Quartet from Budapest, decided that his was virile U. S. music which was well worth playing widely. Two years ago the Boston Symphony played Harris...
When he was a boy at Hyde Park and sailed his toy boats on the placid Hudson, Franklin Roosevelt hungered for romance on the high seas. Never having outgrown his juvenile appetite for maritime adventure, the 32nd U. S. President's eyes sparkled appreciatively last week when he stepped ashore on a Treasure Island as fabulous as Robert Louis Stevenson's. Like a big green peppermint gum drop ringed with a frost of spun sugar, the densely vegetated peaks of Cocos Island rose some 2,000 ft. over his head, while all around the island's steep...
Reynolds Metals has long since outgrown its dependence on the tobacco industry: only about 30% of its business is in that field. Specializing in the art of packaging, it now makes anything from wine caps to book jackets, from ham wrappers to ginger ale labels, from candy box covers to containers for permanent wave pads. Lately Reynolds has added building materials, and it is in that division that the company is presumably about to expand. Chief building product is aluminum foil insulation, which because of its shiny finish minimizes transfer of heat by radiation. Most building insulation simply reduces heat...
Graduate schools, of course, inevitably, accompany an undergraduate system which aims at catholicity rather than specialization, which in turn accompanies a half-hearted attempt to compromise with the practical. With that attempt I sympathize, in theory. Cambridge has outgrown its unconcern with the contemporary, but American universities have had two centuries of modernity. Nevertheless the question of purpose needs to be reconsidered in relation to university training everywhere, and in this particular I prefer the English practice. Ostensibly the English system is run to produce bishops, judges, members of Parliament, Higher Civil Servants, and Pure Scientists. As these are assumed...