Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nivola takes his own teaching very seriously. As for his particular method, he teaches what he knows, which means that most of his students can be found experimenting with his block and sand sculpture. He encourages them to read and participate in other arts as well; because he is dedicated to the Renaissance ideals of the universal man and universal art even in this age of specialization. A good sculptor, he believes, should be familiar with the traditions of architecture and painting. Likewise he says "I think architects and planners should learn to paint, to carve, to cast, to work...
Last week at the Harvard Fund's thirtieth anniversary dinner, the Class of 1930 gave a check for $285,000 to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. It is a sizable amount, representing 25 years of fund-raising efforts in that particular class. And yet it is not an unusually large sum; indeed, in the immediate future, each 25th Reunion class will probably give the College no less an amount, and very likely a little more...
...outside original in an exciting locale, like on a fleet of barges being towed around Manhattan, with the symphony orchestra on the first barge, and cameras with telescopic lenses spotted ashore to zoom in from the Empire State, the Statue of Liberty, the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge on a particular scene and with a natural finish as it turns into a water ballet, and they all drown! Gad! What a 90 minutes we have here...
Unfortunately, however, this particular example of election year prudence carries with it the disturbing implication that any man who speaks before a political organization automatically represents its views. Whether Hiss was a Communist is irrelevant; nor should his present ideas be a deterrent, because an organization does not commit itself to any ideology merely by inviting a man to speak. If the ADA had allowed Hiss to speak, few would have taken exception. By suddenly donning the robes of Draconian vigilance, the ADA only appears hypocritical and foolish...
While both speakers specified their particular reservations to the topic, Fairbank in the main attacked the present U.S. policy, while Westerfield defended it. The only specific point of agreement came on the question of the offshore islands, Quemoy and Matsu, which each held indefensible...