Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stransky calm, friends tell how he took the fall of Paris in 1940. During the mad scramble of flight, he went for a quiet stroll along the Champs-Elysées, where he ran into the well-known Czech pianist, Rudolf Firkusny. Stransky said he had wanted to ask Firkusny's advice on a problem that had been on his mind for a long time. Was it too late in life for him to learn to play the piano? And where could he find a good teacher in Paris these days...
...Oxford knows it has a vice-chancellor, and that the vice-chancellor runs the University,* but few can tell his name. Ask an unsuspecting undergraduate who Sir Richard Livingstone is and the chances are he will murmur something about Stanley in Africa. Last week, as Oxford slumbered in the "long vac" and Sir Richard hied himself to Ireland for a holiday, the Atlantic Monthly gave its U.S. readers (who know him even less than Oxonians do) a chance to meet one of education's most articulate thinkers...
...Greater Boston Community Fund, the program is aired at a time usually devoted to children's shows (5:30 p.m. E.D.S.T.). The first discussion urged parents to answer their children's questions honestly, to provide early sex education without fairy tales. Some future topics: "Questions Children Ask and Don't Ask"; "Puppy Love: Dating...
Francis Barton Gummere, Haverford's English scholar (remembered by Christopher Morley): "As far as the battle of learning goes, we were pacifists-conscientious objectors. . . . It was his way to pretend that we knew far more than we did; so with perfect courtesy and gravity, he would ask our opinion on some matter of which we knew next to nothing; and we knew it was only his exquisiteness of good manners that impelled the habit. . . . To fail him in some task [became] the one thing most abhorrent in dealing with such a man-a discourtesy...
...training ground for secularism. "Unlike Catholicism, the Protestant churches . . . have given to the public school their consistent and unreserved devotion. The result is that their own children have been delivered back to their churches with a mentality that is not only unintelligent about religion but relatively incapacitated even to ask the questions out of which religion arises. . . ." The remedy, says Dr. Morrison, is to teach religion as a part of the public school curriculum, like history or economics...