Word: pates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books ablaze and to die. Photographed by Nicolas Farkas, who directed The Battle (TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble nose, the gaunt cheek, the scraggly whiskers of the Don whose addled pate wears a barber's lather-bowl which he thinks is a helmet; the whirling windmills seen from a dozen different angles after the poor Don is impaled on one of them by his own spear. Notable is the picture's end. Off-screen Chaliapin sings morosely, while...
...Yale Daily News, commenting on the recent CRIMSON editorial on "Education and Pate-Stuffing," stated that "the day has not yet come when scholarship can be sacrificed altogether for "culture." This statement is one with which no serious observer of modern education would disagree. It is in the definition of scholarship that confusion arises...
...that "ability to think," which is identical with the "ability to learn," in any but the most parrot-like sense. It is in this latter sense indeed, that it is encouraged by the present system of entrance examinations, and it is in this sense that the word "pate-stuffing" has been applied. Scholarship, it is true, can not be sacrificed to "culture," but neither should it be sacrificed to rote-learning...
...editorial entitled "Education and Pate-Stuffing," the Harvard CRIMSON recently accused several of the more progressive colleges of continuing, in their entrance requirements, "to encourage superficiality." This encouragement, it was claimed, is evidenced by the conformity with the requirements of the College Entrance Examination Board, a conformity which leads even the best of the preparatory schools to go in for patestuffing. "Instead of education, the whole apparatus of cramming flourishes...
...budget. For years the San Francisco Opera ran no deficit. Last season there was one of some $30,000. Merola often undertakes a performance with next to no rehearsals; Hertz demands many. But as the solid old German stood in the pit last week, sweat gleaming from his bald pate, his beard pointing eagerly toward the stage. San Franciscans forgot all about dollars and deficits in the fine sweep of his orchestral performance...