Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Varsity ski team edged Yale by a close 98.6-97.6 score Saturday in the annual Big Three meet to win back the Bob Goodman trophy from the Elis...
...note. While growing up in The Hague, Pia heard a lot of jazz. "I don't know why," she says, "but I always liked that jazz rhythm." At eight, she sat at the family piano and syncopated familiar waltzes and minuets. From recordings of Louis Armstrong. Benny Goodman, Count Basic and other U.S. masters, she learned how to play around a melody, but when she went to study music-reading and correct technique-under the director of a Dutch conservatory of music, Pia could learn nothing. After three lessons the director told Pia. "What you do with your hands...
Turning from the issue's highly satisfactory fiction, we find that its most important preoccupations with the problem of the academician's function. Paul Goodman's article, "The Freedom to Be Academic," is an interesting if somewhat briefly presented reaction to the problem of anxiety in university faculties. Using two recent books on the academic freedom issue as a starting point, Goodman argues for the greater commitment of both teacher and student in the academic relationship. His insistence on the need of dedication to propositions is echoed by the editors of i.e. in their editorial, "The Place of Opposition...
...issue of apathy versus commitment which appears here is important and provocative--especially, as the editors seem fully aware, in the context of the Harvard community. Goodman's article unfortunately verges on the hodge-podge; he has tied to include and compress too much, and the result, although tantalizing, is not satisfactory in toto...
...Goodman's other work in this issue consists of a short story and a series of tangled aphorisms. The story, while clever, is unimportant. The aphorisms, much too heavily burdened with the jargon of the psyche, seem on the verge of saying something. Perhaps they do, but for most readers they will be unrewarding...