Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for Another Look. Though no classicist like Sir Richard, Sonners is dismayed by much of modern education. He loathes overcrowding ("I'd weep permanently if I thought Oxford were to be kept at its present size of around 6,000"). He detests vocational specialization: "When universities take up brewing and call it 'industrial fermentation,' it is time to take another look." He has misgivings about psychology, which has recently been made an Honors school at Oxford, snorts that "economics isn't a science, but a political engine. Many economists simply fit their science to their...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). The 105-year-old orchestra, starting its 18th year on CBS, with Leopold Stokowski conducting Bach's Ich Steh' mit Einem Fuss im Grabe; Brahms's Symphony No. 2 in D Major; Debussy's Nuages, Fêtes and Sir...