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...been faced with the necessity of teaching basic non-college work on one hand-remedial English, elementary languages, and elementary mathematics--and to include training programs like ROTC on the other. "Even if we grant the fact that they are necessary, it is dangerous to let them limit our concept of the education we should give," the report claims...
...Supreme Court Justice have, since the inception of the Court, judged the issues before them on the basis of their own prejudices and the dominant prejudices of their time. The history of the interpretations of the Due Process Clause and the Inter-state Commecroc Clause are good examples. The concept of judicial impartiality, although containing some truth, is largely a myth...
Digest thought that the Radulovic canvases "bear the marks of passion and power," and the Philadelphia Inquirer praised his ability to begin with a pictorial concept, break it up and rebuild it on his own lines. Better yet, four of the paintings in the show were sold at the opening, one for $300, and nobody seemed outraged at the $1,000 price tags on some of the pictures. Exulted Savo. now 42: "This means I'll never again have to be a private detective...
...words were in a new collection of Wright's essays (The Future of Architecture; Horizon Press; $7.50), which express a philosophy of building as original as it is vital. Wright early rejected the traditional concept that architecture is mainly a matter of blocks and boxes. His own buildings derive from the organic constructions of nature. Wright once designed an extraordinarily efficient column after studying the structure of morning glories, and his skyscraper now going up in Bartlesville, Okla. is built on the principle of a tree. "The only safe precedent," Wright likes to say, "is principle...
...notion of individual liberty is written large in almost every legal code as far back as Solon, and perhaps even before him. Moreover, the concept of justice as the proper moral objective of the law also appears at a very early date...