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...return for its investment in a man, the exact area of a member's work is left purposely vague. The Senior Fellows, in interviewing a man, make no effort to pin him down closely on his projected work. They place their hopes in the general possibilities of a creative thinker rather than in his specific plans or even past achievements. But despite the shortness and informality of the interview, the meetings have been described as "devastating." A report of one of the interviews reads like a study in mild torture...
...emergence as a favorite of young intellectuals taking a leisurely break between rising and lunch time, this corner has been essential for the physical health of Harvard. Dodging the vigilant cabs, cars and trucks that patrol Massachusetts Avenue was enough to test the mettle of any normally sedentary thinker. With black coffee and pleasant sophistry his reward, the scholar risked the crossing each day, sharpening his senses and developing trim reflexes. The Jungle ruled in Mass. Ave., and the Harvard man either emerged its master or, found unfit, was sent reeling, to eke out his $30 stay at Stillman...
Dramatic Specter. The first requirement of education for privacy is "to learn how to think-not out loud or in print, but privately. The thinker himself, not his neighbor, is to be the beneficiary ... To possess one's soul in an intellectual sense means to have found some answer, or partial answer, to the questions: What is the nature of this world . . . what is my place in it, and what must be my attitude toward...
...from Dartmouth, he became a boy wonder in advertising, was named advertising manager for American Tobacco Co. at 29. After two years' service in the Navy, he became a Young & Rubicam vice president at 40, joined NBC in 1949 as head of television. Sometimes called NBC's "thinker-in-chief," Pat Weaver thought up such programs as Your Show of Shows, Today. Already a legend in a legendary trade, Weaver talks in nonstop sentences, studs them with such phrases as "the We-Group formula," "new cosmology," "integrated enlightenment." He once studied a transcript of a speech...
...president has carried on a highly successful drive to revise his entire administrative organization. He now has a top educator and progressive thinker in vice-president Bruce M. Bigelow who administers his stopped-up intellectual program. His drive, pointed toward cutting astronomical student mortality figures, has succeeded in bringing expulsions down to half their former number. But there is a limit to what can be accomplished without capital and facilities to attract top educators...