Word: inhibitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grades, courses, and the other IBM-directed trivia of Harvard education actually inhibit a third type of student, the individual whose desire to study some problem deeply is thwarted by the feeling that he must make high marks in all courses, for the sake of the Scholarship Committee, or for a graduate school, or for his parents...
...night the Sixth Fleet is kept in a state of "instant readiness" to handle its many and unpredictable assignments. It is poised to inhibit Soviet volunteers in the Arab world, to provide air cover (if sought) for the armies of a dozen friendly nations, to support and guard the southern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to land marines anywhere that they are needed, and even to reinforce the U.S. Air Force (if called upon) in a strategic bombing northward over the Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot...
This idea has tremendous potentialities, and could represent a radical and most significant contribution by Harvard to American higher education. Intellectual development presupposes independent and creative thought, and unfortunately many of the University's trivial formalities only inhibit this growth...
...jazzmen used to going "way out" on free-swinging improvisations, much of modern symphonic music has long seemed both sterile and inhibited. Composer Howard Brubeck, a college music teacher and brother of Pianist Dave Brubeck, wrote his Dialogues in an effort to un-inhibit things by wedding improvisation with formal music. Both the jazzmen and the symphonic musicians had some doubts about the project. "We can't memorize and play a piece we don't like the way a legit musician can," Dave said when he first heard Howard's plans. But he changed his mind when...
...fancifully whiskered fish in rotation. Franz Deughausen seems to have drawn inspiration from mobile-maker Alexander Calder. "Adagio," a piece by Elizabeth McLean Smith, is equally alive in a different way: the body of the dancer is taut and convincing through the folds of a long dress which painfully inhibit her motion...