Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Cronin's insistence upon the primacy of parental authority in the education of children deserves praise by parents everywhere-both Catholic and otherwise. For a schoolteacher to ask the child itself to evaluate its home training in terms of "too strict" or "too lenient" is an absurdity whose only really efficacious result would be to suggest to the child that it had the wisdom and experience to veto its parents' home program. Both America and TIME have acted commendably in bringing to the public scrutiny this undermining of the rights of parents...
...cleansed its defilement by agents with pieces of their bodies in Baghdad's streets, we come to you with our new Arab Iraqi revolution." The Baghdad radio called on Jordanians to "rise up and kill Hussein." And the reply of Hussein's Amman radio was to ask Iraqis: "Why have you not avenged the innocent blood shed in Baghdad? Would you leave the honor of revenge for others? What is the use of living if descendants of the Prophet are killed before your eyes? Take revenge, brothers. God is with...
...next time Nasser sees Khrushchev, he might well ask him: If national liberation is the first step, what is the second...
...Enigmas. Just what it is and why it is important is as much a mystery to the broad-U.S. public as to puzzled Europeans. And not without reason. U.S. abstractionists discuss what they are doing in enigmas that would win kudos from a Zen master. Painter Franz Kline, asked what he was trying to express, replied: "When I was young, I was 19. Does that answer your question?" With few exceptions, critics do little better. Art News once described one of Mark Rothko's works as "haunted, like the shining skin of an opulent eggplant, by the clay...
...pitch that only this spring he was interviewed by Mike Wallace as a wonder boy of finance, the proprietor of a budding empire worth, he claimed, something like $10 million. To Tough-Guy Wallace, Belle explained: "If you claw your way up" to success, you never have to ask anyone for anything. "It's a terrible feeling to have to call on anybody for help...