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When Johns Hopkins asked M.I.T.'s Karl Compton to submit a list of candidates, he sent back only one name-Bronk's. Largely on Compton's say-so, the university scarcely considered its 100-odd other candidates. Johns Hopkins was getting a man who once advised universities to hold firm against those who thought they "should assume the functions of a trade school or provide entertainment for the masses," and against parents who, having failed to bring their children up properly, "insist that the university become a school for manners or an elite reformatory...
...Stevenson was a distant relation), bookish, retiring young Greene finished his education at Oxford's scholarly Balliol College. After that he ran through a succession of newspaper jobs, plugged away at his novels in his spare time. The Man Within, the first book he thought good enough to submit, so delighted the publishing house of Heinemann that they staked Greene for three years. Except for a few years in the Information Ministry and the Foreign Office during World War II, Greene has been writing ever since...
...announced as George L. Vaughn, a delegate from St. Louis and a member of the credentials committee; he wanted to submit a minority report. The majority had agreed to seat the Mississippi delegation. But the Mississippi delegation, Vaughn charged, intended to walk out if Harry Truman's civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention...
Stravinsky likes to see movies, particularly Westerns ("Just the shooting of the guns and the simple plot") and the "picture comique." But he refuses to write music for them.* In a voice like a bass trombone with the slide all the way out, he says grandly: "I cannot submit myself to their rules and laws. Practical restrictions I have always welcomed; psychological restrictions, no! They say to me, 'Create atmosphere.' Comment? Create atmosphere! How can one? I am ashamed. I blush. I am absolutely incompetent to create atmosphere. I say to them, 'You must create the atmosphere...
...Harvard in 1940 he tried to explain what he means: "The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free . . . The Dionysian elements which set the imagination of the artist in motion . . . must be properly subjugated before they intoxicate us, and must finally be made to submit to the law: Apollo demands...