Word: quickening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife, and his studies. The Puritan Ethic did not permit idle time; Quincy's dairy is replete wtih statements such as, "I resolve, therefore, in future to be more circumspect--to hoard my moments with a more thrifty spirit--to listen less to the suggestions of indolence, and so quicken that spirit of intellectual improvement to which I devote my life." In addition to copious readings in the classics, he spent a great deal of time learning French, studying botany, keeping an extensive diary, and attending to affairs legal and political...
Thirty years of "life adjustment" by the followers of Progressive Educator John Dewey have left U.S. education over adjusted, ill-equipped to quicken intellectual life. This week, in "The Deeper Problem in Education," LIFE takes stock of the situation...
Millions of Americans also quicken to the glamour of business as described in countless TV shows, movies, novels and magazine stories that draw drama from the roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...
First of all, said Wagner, it soon "became abundantly evident that no young American could reasonably be expected to sit through one hour staring at the same face on the same small screen. Classroom TV is supposed to 'quicken an interest.' In fact, nothing turned out to be more dampening than the flickering image of an elderly teacher, looking weary and unshaven under the television lights. Jokes fall flat, emphasis is missed, and the lack of any personal relationship proves stultifying...
...either unavailable or exorbitantly expensive in most U.S. cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman in Manhattan last week, "but TV gets 'em first...