Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hurriedly, the Press asked Sculptor Fredericks for his interpretation of the controversial work. Explained he: "It is essentially religious . . . The statue of the youth, reaching upward toward his God, is a symbol of the souls of the men who fought and died. It represents their hope for a world free from war, pestilence and fear." Last week, all further work on the statue was temporarily stopped. If public opinion insisted, Editor Seltzer was prepared to edit the statue. Said he: "We don't want to impose anything on the people they don't want...
...unspoilt youth . . . with his mind just waking up and his feelings all fresh and open to the good," Essayist G. Lowes Dickinson once wrote, "is the most beautiful thing this world produces...
What happens to the unspoilt youth when he gets to college has moved Sir Walter Moberly, ex-professor of philosophy at Birmingham University and one of Britain's top educators, to write a book called The Crisis in the University. Britons have decided that it is one of the most thoughtful, responsible critiques of the British university since John Henry Newman's Idea of a University. By last week Sir Walter's blast had whirled the learned dust along academic corridors in England and made eddies in the intellectual weeklies...
...universities, Sir Walter charges, are trying to renounce their responsibility for the education of youth. Philosopher C.E.M. Joad, discussing The Crisis in the New Statesman and Nation, satirizes the university attitude: "You want an atom bomb? Right! We will make it for you. But we really can't concern ourselves with the use to which you propose to put it . . . You want a cathedral? Right! The architectural department will tell you how to build it. But whether you should worship in it or keep pigs in it is a question which falls outside our province...
...Criminal Mind. In Pontiac, Mich., Mrs. Opal E. Caughell told police, that when the burglar who entered her house was assured that she had no money, he settled for a ham sandwich. In Kansas City, Mo., police were looking for a youth who kidnaped 59-year-old Mrs. Sadie Crosner, took her money and car, then kissed her gently on the cheek with the observation that she reminded him of his mother. In Redding, Calif., Dick Farnsworth found a note on the door of his rifled store: "Get a new lock; this one is too easy...