Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising that Mortimer J. Adler, who has repeatedly plunged himself into the thorniest problems of education, should tackle this ancient theme. Already as a Columbia undergraduate, Adler nagged philosophy professors by exposing certain of their contradictions, snubbed revered Educator John Dewey by spoofing pragmatism as bits of useful information at the price of wisdom. As a philosophy professor, he campaigned against universities' traditional system of departmentalization and specialization. As an author, he tried to summarize (in his The Great Ideas-a Syntopicon) the history of Western thought (to be found in the Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books...
...address on Christ and the law, the Rev. Markus Barth, son of Swiss Theologian Karl Barth and a member of Chicago University's Federated Theological Faculty, developed the same theme. "Lawyers feel much more exposed to a conflict of conscience than most other people," he said. Some try to "keep their hands clean by becoming office lawyers," in hopes of escaping the "dirty work that might involve their own consciences." But "since Christ interceded for sinners," said Earth, "Christian lawyers therefore obey Christ's fulfilled law by pleading for sinners-that they may live and receive what...
...target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that of the heart's exile from the far country of its desires, a logical reflection of the physical exile of longtime Russian Emigre Nabokov. The uprooted, he seems to say. are more vulnerable than the rootless, for they are the victims of their memories...
Nobody Heard. The carnage caused by the torpedoes was bad enough, but what happened next resulted in the deadliest single-ship disaster the U.S. Navy ever suffered at sea. Why and how it happened is the theme of Richard Newcomb's book, which sheds sharp new light on a tragedy aggravated by bumbling...
Even if an English teacher has a gift for his profession and a proper grounding in it, there is no certainty that his classes will get the training they should have. Instructors who must teach writing report daily pupil loads of up to 225; at one theme a week and a skimpy five minutes' grading time for each theme, this situation adds a killing 18 hours to their work week. Tuttle's and the council's recommendation: daily loads of not more than 100 students. Without charge, English Teacher Tuttle throws in some advice to school boards...