Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tanguy lays no claim to imagination, boasts of having no purpose. Says he: "Seeking is the important thing, not painting. You may think painting is to show something new, but no: Picasso and Dali do that, and they are monkeys. I don't want to show anything, or to teach anything. I've resisted learning all my life, and I don't propose to start teaching others...
...country's top scientists, give them absolutely free reign to wander through the problem at an 80-acre laboratory in Van Nuys, have them delve into theoretical electronics and upper-air travel. He will pay high salaries, encourage them to soak up academic atmosphere by letting them teach part-time at three nearby universities: CalTech. U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. For the final payoff, a corps of 1,000 engineers will be called in to translate the theory into practical missiles systems, e.g., long-range rockets with infallible electronic brains to guide them to targets thousands of miles away...
...Alex F. Osborn. By profession, Osborn is neither an airman, educator, nor psychologist. Nevertheless, he seems destined to have a hand in the training of the nation's air reserve. For the past two years he has been waging a one-man crusade to get U.S. education to teach creative imagination. Last week-with the blessings of the Air University in Montgomery, Ala.-A.F.R.O.T.C. instructors from Stanford to the University of North Carolina were discussing ways to incorporate some of Osborn's ideas into their courses on problem solving...
...Poet Paul Claudel "the greatest living writer in France" (Cheri, Gigi); of a heart ailment; in Paris. At 20, Colette married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a potboiling hack who won fame by publishing under his own name the novels he forced her to turn out, in turn did much to teach her a style as ruthlessly chaste as her heroines were unchaste. Colette depicted quietly desperate women in love and in bed, became the most honored female writer in France's history, first woman president of the Academic Goncourt (the Academic Francaise admits only men), ironically achieved widespread fame...
...first new edition in two decades, are the latest attempt to distill "a potent bottle" out of the "great lake of correspondence." They show a mind that always went straight to the point without swerving a hair's breadth and never doubted that it was wise enough to teach law to lawyers, science to scientists, and religion to Popes. Most of the letters have a single idea at the back of them-to impress on the recipients the notion that they are living in an age dominated by a "new spirit"-Napoleon himself. Anything, no matter how trifling, that...