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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of you have sharp minds not connected to your eyes," said Anderson. Brandishing his stalk, he analyzed its structure with a breathless flow of higher mathematics; he tossed in rich dollops of economics, sociology and religion. "Man's history is that of maize, the great crop," said he. "In this highly patterned world, you must see more and more complex patterns." Murmured a dazzled Dutch psychologist: "A-maize...
Needs & Wants. Not all Casbah scholars are social scientists. Recent alumni include M.I.T.'s noted Mathematician Claude Shannon and Literary Critic Mark Schorer, who worked on his biography of Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "Here I need no library," said Harvard Linguist Roman Jakobson. "If I have a question in psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, literature, I just go down a few doors and knock: 'May I come...
...Grand Canyon. But the usual effect is heady reappraisal. One famed fellow recalls that his pre-Casbah world had shriveled to six friends with the same opinion. At his first Casbah meal, he was plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram's summation. For him the Casbah's value lay as much in a personal boost as in other people's ideas. "You have no administration, no classes, no students. You can evaluate...
...intellectuals in this country today. The modern world needs more people-including girls-who think for themselves." All down the line, urged Sister Margaret, education for U.S. women should be stiffened. More women should go on to graduate school, be fitted for "a better contribution to American life." Said she of classical-bent Trinity, which sends half its girls to graduate school: "We're not in the business of training committee women or bridge players...
Last week, totting up early-bird applications to cover President Eisenhower's planned visit to Russia next spring, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty warned the U.S. press that it stood in danger of defeating its own purpose. Some 500 newsmen, he said, including 16 from the Associated Press, 16 from the major television networks, and 150 from foreign reporters based in the U.S., have already bid for space aboard the press plane -which can accommodate 107. Also among the applicants were several correspondents' and publishers' wives, billed as "feature writers...