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...monumental The Meeting of East and West (1946), the work of a man equally at home in law, science, sociology, diplomacy and anthropology. Yale has rarely seen the likes of Northrop, a brilliant Wisconsinite who studied at Harvard and Cambridge, became a protégé of Alfred North Whitehead. The first master of Yale's Silliman College, Northrop quit that in 1947 for fulltime scholarship on both the law and philosophy faculties. He preferred immersion in such subjects as Mexican culture, quantum physics and relativity (he was an intimate of Einstein's) as preludes to informed philosophical...
Speaking before Radcliffe seniors and their families. Woodworth drew together concepts from the works of Alfred North Whitehead, from the Bible, and from a biography of Coleridge by John Livingston Lowes. Perhaps the most important of these notions was that of "the habitual vision of greatness," which Woodworth took from Whitehead...
...idea which Woodworth took from Whitehead dealt with the educational process. Whitehead wrote that "culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty, and humane feeling." Woodworth said that this "trilogy of virtues should be [the student's] deepest concern." He also stressed, as had Whitehead, that learning must go through a complete cycle--"from romance, through precision, to generalization...
...Observe," Woodworth continued, "that Whitehead linked together "receptiveness to beauty" and "activity of thought"--"romance" and "precision," the transport of joy and the discipline of the mind. Woodworth called this juxtaposition "the paradox of discipline and freedom"; he illustrated it with a feeling he said occurred often among musicians--"only when each individual voice, each personality, each idiosyncracy is somehow lost in selfless allegiance to the music, only then come those unforgettable moments when the singers feel a sense of elation, indeed, of power and of freedom...
...turned 36), Queen Elizabeth issued her traditional birthday honors lists and slyly mixed into it a heady summer highball. Named a Commander of the British Empire was A.R.D. Gilbey, maker of Gilbey's gin; named a member of the Order of the British Empire was Commander Walter Edward Whitehead, bearded pitchman for Schweppes quinine water. Among 2,000 other honors: a knighthood for Guardian Cartoonist David Low-who now becomes Sir David-creator of that enduring symbol of bumbling bureaucracy, Colonel Blimp; an Order of the British Empire for New Zealand Runner Peter Snell, world record holder...