Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rosenman picked 83 Bay area residents, regardless of their positions in business and industry, who were reported to them by their employers as having 1) intensive drive, 2) profound inclination to compete, 3) persistent desire for recognition and advancement, 4) continuous involvement in multiple and diverse functions subject to time restrictions (i.e., deadlines), 5) habitual compulsion to speed up all their physical and mental functions, and 6) superior mental and physical alertness. For comparison they took an equal number of men of the same ages and physical types, but with the opposite personality type-little drive or desire to compete...
...Bartholomew, one of the more obscure of the apostles, is also subject to historical confusion. The symbolic knife he holds derives from the story that he was flayed alive in Armenia. Out of ignorance of this tradition, one of Rembrandt's own later versions now in Downton Castle, near Ludlow, England, was long titled Rembrandt's Cook...
Rembrandt supposedly used not his cook but his father as a model, and the Worcester Art Museum's Bartholomew provides dramatic evidence that even at 26, Rembrandt was well embarked on the style and subject matter that led to his late great style. Says Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich: "St. Bartholomew was done just before Rembrandt entered into his early success in Amsterdam and began to turn out rather slick, social portraits. Its deep, inner power foretells the late, introspective Rembrandts-an interesting link between his youth and old age when he painted some of his greatest works...
...Onionhead, an unfunny comedy about the Coast Guard, in which a wife seduces her husband's shipmates because he cannot satisfy her. (Article III, Section 3b: "Seduction is never acceptable subject matter for comedy...
Although the Committee's official position is that the student's individual program principally determines the subject matter for which he is responsible, in practice the minimal requirements are so broad, five or six full courses before the Qualifying exam are barely sufficient for adequate preparation. Not only does this discourage electives in the Sophomore and Junior years, but it puts great emphasis on survey courses, which are often less satisfactory than more specialized studies...