Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple forms only to find itself staring into an endless beyond, as it once was made to clamber over Braque's intricate geometric planes. Whether he intended to or not. Braque has restored to the bird its ancient role as messenger of the spirit and bearer of the soul. "In art." says Braque, "there is a mystery present. One must respect the mystery. When one thinks he has plumbed it, he has only deepened...
Little Lost Soul. All this clearly leads to more specialization, upsetting those who cherish the values of general education-and four years of it in a liberal arts atmosphere. They see colleges becoming mere cram schools for graduate study, and at some prestige campuses, 90% of all B.A.s do go on studying (national rate: 33%). The generalists are also unhappy about speedup advanced-standing schemes in which students skip entire years. (They approve the extra-credit Advanced Placement Program.) At Harvard, Classicist John Finley argues that even ultrabrights need time to grow up. "A student can fly from the West...
Scarcely had Erhard delivered his message when six German automobile manufacturers, led by Volkswagen, increased their retail price from $60 to $97 per car. With Kennedy-like rage, Erhard denounced the price rise as "irresponsible" and summoned top automakers to his office for what Germans like to call "soul massage." At first it appeared that Erhard had won the day. Shaken by his assault, Volkswagen's board of directors recommended that the price increase be abandoned-and whatever Volkswagen did, the other automakers could be expected to follow...
Throughout much of his career (Stanford, Princeton, Rochester, Pennsylvania and Carnegie Tech as well as Illinois), Seitz has been an outspoken champion of scientists who devote their talents to national problems. In the midst of the loud soul-searching that followed President Truman's 1950 announcement that the U.S. would develop a hydrogen bomb, Seitz stood before the American Physical Society and laid it on the line for his anti-H-bomb colleagues. Said he: "Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western cul ture was being overwhelmed...
Other winners named: Steven M. Goldman, economices, MIT; David B. Hemmendinger, mathematies, Stanford: Robert H. Hesse '50-00, organic chemistry, University of London: Henry S. Hern, biology, University of Washington; Soul A. Kripke, mathematics, Stanford; Arnold M. Kusmeck, mathematies, MIT; Martin Lampo, physics; University of California (Berkeley): John H. Lowenstein, physics Princeton; James M. MeBride, chemistry, Harvard; and Alfred H. Miller M.D. '56, history of science, Harvard...