Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's Graduate School of Design, the search for rigor is partly expressed by two phrases: "from follows function" and "the human scale." In this issue of Connection Benjamin Thompson, chairman of the Architecture Department, suggests a purposeful departure from "artistic" designing towards an "anonymous architecture," based principally on the uses and setting of a building. He uses the work of his own firm, The Architects' Collaborative, to illustrate the proposal. Thompson defines TAC's team style (as seen in the Geological Labs on Oxford St.) as "design for other humans than ourselves"--the opposite of "egotism and upstage-itis...
...original a topic as negritude, but David Levey and Yoran Ben-Porath manage to say original things about it. The other contributor, Andrew Grey-stoke, wanders aimlessly about the subject, finally admitting that he really has no firm position. Levey and Ben-Porath, conversely, attack the problem with the rigor and hard-nosedness of their chosen discipline, economics. Their articles display an impressive tightness, derived from a controlled tension between deep conviction and and an even deeper respect for logic and evidence...
...churlish reply deserves high marks, if he wants them, for its chilliness and scorn. However, these are not qualities that I, at least, greatly admire in a public official so fatefully close to the President of the U.S. They are signs not of intellectual incisiveness or of moral rigor but only of bureaucratic self-righteousness and too-prolonged insulation from the ever-growing anxieties that Mr. Bundy's ex-colleagues in universities everywhere feel toward the foreign policies that he has helped to shape in recent years. His mind is more rapid than accurate, more facile than profound...
These students would know intuitively what the Doty Committee seems unwilling to acknowledge: A behavioral science is not the same--in style of thought or rigor--as a natural science. It is simply inconsistent to call for a stiffer science requirement and then propose a requirement in the behavioral sciences. Of course many of the behavioral sciences are interesting and important, but so are music and philosophy, and no one is asking that every student should take them. To justify its proposals, the Doty Committee would have had to explain the special importance of the behavioral sciences. This, we believe...
...importance. "The key thing is to establish the limits of propositions and approaches--the boundaries beyond which the hypotheses no longer hold water." By teaching an upper-level General Education course, rather than one on strict economic history, Gerschenkron can proceed by "free association." "I feel liberated from the rigor of discipline. If I find something that interest the students and myself, we can follow...