Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and chairman of the English department committee which administers the Fund, calls him "one of the younger poets ... honest and straightforward . . . whose war poetry gives a good physchological account, and physical description...
...misleading words-"non-scientific Dublin, of all places"-in an otherwise excellent account,' your reporter on Schrodinger [TIME, Feb. 10] needs a swift kick in the pants. The cut [Schrodinger's formula] at the page-top tells all-a new message in words old but not outworn. The mathematician reads it thus: "Schrodinger bases his theory on Hamilton's Principle, using as Lagrangian the square root of the negative of the determinant of the Ricci tensor...
...then, should a world-minded university teach history? Britain's famed Historian Arnold Toynbee answered: "To explain the history of your country or my country, the smallest unit that one can take into account is Western Christendom. . . . But it, too, turns out to be inadequate. . . . Western Christendom is merely one of five civilizations that survive in the world today [the others: Orthodox Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Far Eastern]. . . . Within the last four hundred years all five have been brought into contact with each othe. . .as a result of successive expansions. . . . [We historians] must make the necessary effort of imagination...
...with a salary backed by an expense account which may run to $100,000 a year) will not be just another "industrial chaplain." Bristol employees may consult him on spiritual matters, but his chief duty will be outside the plant, "to do good...
Hoare's book is in spots awkwardly written and, indeed, reads more like a diplomat's memoranda than a historian's account. The occasional unhappy phrasing and general lack of literary polish, however, is not conspicuous in a work such as this, and should not annoy students of modern Spain, for whom it should be required reading...