Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administrators are willing to go along with any convenient, easy, well-tried program, demand that some sort of watchdog eye be placed on the schools, to insure that the best possible education can be achieved. Education in this part of the twentieth century has become an all-out community affair, with the isolationism of the academic school of the nineteenth century gone forever. The new--as one authors calls the "life-centered"--approach to education demands the interaction of the student with the community, effected through school field trips and parental visits and interest in the school. In community, after...
Died. Lionel Sebastian Berk Shapiro, 50, Canadian novelist, longtime foreign correspondent; of cancer; in Montreal. A top moneymaker among Canadian authors, Shapiro seined his best haul in 1955 when the Book-of-the-Month Club picked up The Sixth of June, the story of a love affair and its relationship to the invasion of Normandy, which also won the Governor General's award for fiction, became a Hollywood movie...
This important alumni function figures in virtually every alumni affair as a low pressure undercurrent. McCord set the pace for the Program, the Alumni Association, and the Associated Harvard Clubs with this bit of whimsy, read at the New York Harvard's Day Program...
...drop a charge of treason from the list of indictments pending against Perón. Even if the lawyer wins this case, he will have little chance of knocking down all other charges, including one for statutory rape, growing out of Perón's two-year affair with Nelly Rivas, beginning when Nelly was only...
...forgives all political or labor offenses and any common crimes when "committed with political or labor intention." The fact that Nelly belonged to Perón's pampered Union of High School Students and met him on one of his visits to a girls' school is the affair's single, remote connection with politics...