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After graduation from Kilgore High School (where he was a star quarterback), Clements went to Spain to study under Tutor Franklin, trained for more than two years on a rigorous daily schedule that began at 5 a.m. with a three-hour session at a slaughterhouse, where he practiced killing bulls...
Fantasy & Fog. As for science, Barzun insists that scientists cannot communicate with each other-the increasing "fantasy" of their symbolic language prohibits communication. But his sharpest nips at contemporary American are in his attack on togetherness. Barzun charges America with "hostility to intellect," of personality "coddling." His particular enemy is...
∙In the U.S., the mood was the spirit of the wild black yonder as the seven Mercury Astronauts, after rigorous physical and psychological tests, were presented to the public with the promise that one of them will be space-bound in two years. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Rendezvous with Destiny...
Twenty Punctures. Most striking success in getting around the antibody reaction-at least for the time being-was reported by France's Dr. Henri Jammet to the United Nations in Manhattan. His subjects were six atomic scientists (five men and a woman) who had been exposed to normally fatal...
Williams asks that the universities cure themselves by rigorous self-criticism and emphasis on better teaching. He requests that the university try to inspire four ideals in its students: the democratic, the scientific, the Christian, and the joy of learning. The presentation of these ideals is certainly neglected and needed...