Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that much agreed upon, the Big Four adjourned to tell the rest of the NATO ministers what they had planned...
...traditional answer to this demand to accquire a reasonable comprehension of the arts has been the historical method, best exemplified by Fine Arts 13 and Music 1. Walter Gropius, famed professor emeritus, castigates this approach for an undue reliance upon "passive absorbtion" instead of upon active creation. As the 1956 Report of the Committee on the Visual Arts indicated, there is a valid and necessary place for such a verbal approach, but it should not be considered sufficient by itself to convey a deep understanding of the artistic processes--essentially non-verbal--which play such a widespread role in society...
...Robinson Hall Professor N. T. Newton, Chairman of the Department of Architectural Sciences, repeated the same theme. "There may be relationships, such as proportion," he stated, "that we feel can be used today, but to copy the exact form does not follow. Our educational system has been built upon an over-regard for similarity, yet it is the differences after all that count.... What we need to do is to let the form of a design evolve out of the place and times and human need...
Newton emphasizes that the Faculty does not look upon the Arch. Sci. program as only a preparation for the GSD. Like all the departments of the College it is non-professional. (However, it is possible for qualified seniors to combine the last year of college studies and the first year in GSD. Last year only nine of 16 persons qualified took the option.) Instead Newton believes that Arch. Sci. "is as legitimate a field for general education as any other." It serves as an introduction to a profession whose basis is no less than "fulfillment of the social requirements...
...mastering legal quibbles and learning how to persuade a jury that red is really green. He flunks out, though, and forces his son (cleanly played by Marsh McCall) to matriculate in his stead. The son assimilates his course in Unethical Practices so well that he commits assault and battery upon his father without fear of reprisal. But when the son threatens to beat up his mother as well, the senator, fed up with the results of his numbskullduggery, decides to go on a book-burning spree and ends up burning the entire school to the ground...