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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fundamental features of those "Utopias," according to Skinner, is communal property, separation of children from parents for educational purposes, and the absence of money. "Sooner or later we must apply this scientific approach to human affairs and now is the time," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aiken Attacks 'Utopia' Idea In Discussing Skinner Novel | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...Personal Approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Restless Foot | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...system of appointments to full and associate professorships--the two ranks with permanent tenure. Its conception and its mechanics were largely the work of William C. Graustein '11, professor of Mathematics, an outstanding geometrician. Graustein was an extraordinary individual who brought to administrative problems a precise and mathematical approach. He made out the course catalogue each year, almost as a hobby, for he enjoyed wrestling with its major difficulty: to schedule at different hours the courses which are most likely to interest any particular student, while at the same time not giving any teacher too rough a program...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

Loathe Labels. Like any artist worth the name, Stuempfig loathes labels. He accepts the label "romantic" only because he believes that "all good painters are romantic painters. You have to have a certain romantic approach to life or you wouldn't be a painter in the first place. I can't define the word; to me it applies even to Thomas Eakins and Velasquez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Romantic Mood | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Faulkner's home town (Oxford, Miss., pop. 3,500), with the author acting as a sidewalk superintendent during the filming. Nonetheless, the movie, stripped of Faulkner's peripheral probings into mind, heart and scene, is not only dead serious but dead on its feet; its cautious approach to its material results in a film that is more like an arty still photograph than a motion picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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