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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...robust mental health." On the other hand, Beat art, says Goodman, is parochial, hopelessly parochial. Discussing Beat words--"make it," "like," "man," "cool" --Goodman finds a paucity of vocabulary and syntax expressive of the Best withdrawal from standard civilization and its learning. "In a Best group it is bad form to assert or deny a preposition as trus or false, probable or improbable, or to want to explore its meaning. The aim of conversation is for each one to be able, by speech, to know that he is existing and belonging...
Prospective scientists, for example, comprise almost half the entering class, but little more than a quarter graduate as science concentrators. It is true that Harvard does exert various kinds of indirect pressure against science, but the change is also the natural result of the easy form science takes in school. Science is one area where the talented student can show clear and measurable competence and be drawn into a orientation toward college which produces a clear articulation of the relation between education and life...
...really a shame Shelley Winters has decided to leave the cast of Invitation to a March, because she was the best item in this melange of fine acting, funny cracks, old plot lines, and sex in the form of Jane Fonda. Anyone who wants to see a really expert comic performance should run down to the Colonial as soon as he reads this and get a ticket to Invitation for tonight. For on the morrow Miss Winters will be replaced by Celeste Holm, and though Miss Holm is a comedienne of undeniable talent, it is doubtful that she will equal...
School phobia, reports the British Medical Journal, is actually a form of separation anxiety: the rebellious child's real trouble is not fear of school but fear of separation from his parents. The affected child, says the B.M.J., "is usually above the average in intelligence, but tends to be timid, sensitive, spoiled, and to show other fears and fear reactions, such as night terrors. The mothers tend to be indulgent, overprotective and overanxious." Coddled and shy, the child quickly cultivates an intense dislike for the rigors of school discipline. "The final breakdown," reports the B.M.J., "is occasioned usually...
...most talked-about ethical problem in U.S. business is conflict of interest, in which an executive divides his loyalty between his own firm and another. The conflict may take the form of slipping some of his firm's business to a relative or profiting from owning (or owning stock in) a supplier. Last week Chrysler Corp.. which touched off the current conflict-of-interest furor by sacking President William C. Newberg for owning interests in suppliers, announced that an investigation has found its present 36 top executives in the clear. Shaken by the Chrysler case, other corporations...