Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for a fitting eulogy on TV's last appeal to humor and reason-Sid Caesar. Henceforth I shall read on Saturday night...
Your Picasso spread was one of the most interesting I have ever read. The reproductions are by far the finest I have seen, and will make a wonderful addition to my TIME art collection...
...acquisition of a liberal education--an undefined product which has replaced God as a name for what we want but have not got. The pamphlet said that he was being trained to apply general knowledge in particular situations, and President Pusey told him that he was being trained to read books and defend the community of learning against the attacks of antiintellectuals. Unfortunately, nobody told him how or why these things could or should be done. Perhaps that was why, four years later, Rumplestiltskin graduated as puzzled and lost as when he had arrived, still trying to improve his mind...
Very often, he noticed, this simply implied that he should have read and "understood" the right books, and understanding consisted exclusively of what he could articulate, which was usually what he least cared about...
...first of these is the Scholar of the House program, in which courses are optional for a group of about twelve seniors. They meet biweekly, read papers to each other, and study under the guidance of a tutor...