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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blakelock, self-taught, had spent most of his life fanatically painting bigger, better landscapes, and trying to support his family in the slum-infested fringes of Manhattan by peddling the pictures to framers, Third Avenue junk dealers, and auction houses for a few dollars apiece. Intermittently, his work was exhibited at the National Academy; but conventional critics of the 1870s and '80s did not like the misty, moody landscapes-empty of human life-which Blakelock did best. Storytelling in painting was the fashion...
Foolish Questions. "Every single generalization respecting mathematical physics which I was taught [at Trinity College, Cambridge]," he notes, "has now been abandoned. . . ." But Whitehead, who has seen science and philosophy adopt and then discard one "certainty" after another, remains undismayed: "The history of thought is largely concerned with the records of clear-headed men insisting that they at last have discovered some clear, adequately expressed, indubitable truths." Whitehead considers "inconsistent truths [as] seedbeds of suggestiveness," thinks (with his philosophical parent Plato) that "knowledge is a process," and that "ancient science stopped with Archimedes [because] people stopped asking foolish questions...
...curriculum: history taught from a worldwide (not a national) view; current events focused on the nearby U.N.; science and art, stressing the way both spread across borders; a course in U.S. "institutions, ideals and culture"; modern languages (including Russian, Chinese). Foreign students, who will be coached in English, will help teach their tongues...
...propulsion. What gives The Vixens special interest is the fact that its author is the first Negro to make an unqualified success in the slick-writing field. The publishers neither conceal nor exploit this fact: their publicity refers to 31-year-old Frank Yerby as a man who taught English at Florida A. & M. College and Southern University, La., leaves it up to the reader to know that they are Negro colleges...
What Dean Sperry suggests is a group of elementary survey courses to be offered in most-closely related Arts and Sciences departments and to be taught as dispassionately as possible by the Divinity faculty. In that way, two dreams are realized: filling a void in College course-offerings and furthering integration of the Divinity School within the University...