Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the flag bridge they saw the modern Navy put on an impressive, well-run drill. The demonstrations ranged from over-the-shoulder simulated A-bomb tosses to napalm drops, from missile launching to night take-offs and landings. One ensign had trouble with his approaches, was waved away three times before making it on the fourth try. Said the President: "Bet the poor kid was crying his eyes out." The Navy was fairly obvious about its yen to get into the strategic bombing business with, but after, the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. In one notable performance...
...attributed this to two factors: first, the low standards in American high schools, caused by the belief that "education can be acquired without discipline"; second, the gramophone-record type of education," which made knowledge a substitute for thought. Goodhart saw this trend in recent quiz contests, of which he claimed, "The more useless the information, the more admiration its possessor inspires...
...scientists could hardly under- stand what was unique about science, because they were on the inside looking out, and saw the humanities and the social sciences as ineffective forms of empirical naturalism. Meanwhile the Humanities attempted to subsume the sciences instead of admitting them as an alternative, and this with only the vaguest understading of what the sciences were really...
...medical examiners, lusty Dr. Lewi ("I never waste energy resisting temptation") backed the first New York law giving chiropodists the right to set standards of fitness, campaigned relentlessly to have schools and colleges add podiatry to their programs. He graduated more than 2,500 doctors ot podiatry, eventually saw many made staffers in hospitals throughout...
...Reinhard Lullies, photographs by Max Hirmer (Abrams; $12.50), a handsome book that presents the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its origins to its final decadence, through Greek originals exclusively, instead of the usual mixture with spiritless Roman copies. In form, these figures are exactly what the ancient Greeks saw. But the note originally struck is muted: the brilliant colors with which the Greeks painted their statues have rubbed off the marble, and the burnished-gold hue of the bronzes has tarnished. Nonetheless, like buildings whose stone façades take on a glowing quality with age, the Greek bronzes...