Word: texts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a problem that interests President Pusey, too. The matter of "reading in depth" was an important part of General Education at Lawrence College, where he taught a section of the required course on five or six "great books" during his presidency there. "You can't examine a text," he complains, "if simply getting through the number of pages exhausts you." Owen shares this concern, and one instructor recently suggested that a Gen Ed course might profitably take up only one or two books a term, delving into them for every possible meaning...
...time working in the public domain as political advisers, government officials, and advisers to private industry. Rather than a luxury, this practice has come to be considered an important and worthwhile part of the academic life. As one Government professor said, these jobs are the "raw material" of the text books...
These three from the sea make their latest appearance with more than 150 other works of art in Greek Sculpture, text by Reinhard Lullies, photographs by Max Hirmer (Abrams; $12.50), a handsome book that presents the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its origins to its final decadence, through Greek originals exclusively, instead of the usual mixture with spiritless Roman copies. In form, these figures are exactly what the ancient Greeks saw. But the note originally struck is muted: the brilliant colors with which the Greeks painted their statues have rubbed off the marble, and the burnished-gold...
...reproduction of Cowherd, I am prompted to send you the following quotation from a poem by Tu Fu (712 to 770 A.D.) concerning Han Kan, the T'ang Dynasty painter of Cowherd. The poem, A Song of a Painting (in my English version* from the literal English text of Kiang Kang-hu), is addressed to General Ts'ao, who was a painter of war horses preceding Han Kan. Tu Fu, easily one of China's greatest poets, would apparently not have agreed with your estimate of Han Kan as being "China's greatest painter of horses...
...after Khrushchev's historic attack on Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, too, had made a "secret" speech, in fact two of them. The speeches could not match Khrushchev's in sensation, but the stir that they are making in Communist lands (Westerners have yet to get a full text) shows that if Mao is in fact bidding for "ideological equality" with Moscow, he will have eager supporters in the satellites, whose leaders are anxious to see "many roads to Socialism" encouraged in preference to the monolithic made-in-Moscow theorizing. In particular, the Poles have what the U.S. State...