Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concerned'? Why can't I crash through frontiers? How is it I'm not chosen as a volunteer for space missions? Why can't I be an anarchist, blowing up airplanes, factories, and like that, and asserting my individualism?" In short, one must "come to grips" with "basic existence" and master reality through the Ideal. "Why can't I commit myself and become a non-conformist?" still remains the fundamental question of our sham existence...
...publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent news agency to party interests...
...theory that one out of every ten adult male Americans is a conductor at heart, if not in mind and basic education, Victor has issued 35,000 of the albums, happily expects to get demands for more. In Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, Victor is building a podium before a wall-sized photograph of the Boston Symphony, plans to invite passers-by in to conduct behind closed doors. Actually, home conducting may be a healthy thing, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Edmund Bergler: it provides the amateur with sublimating relief from the gnawing "infantile megalomania" that afflicts every...
Radio for Cannon. For a while, he did basic physical research on terrestrial magnetism, which influences cosmic rays. But World War II had begun, and weapons came first. Van Allen was put to work on the development of proximity fuses, which called for something almost inconceivable in 1940: a radio transmitter-receiver that could stand being fired out of a cannon in the nose of a shell. At the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., just outside Washington, Van Allen was a junior scientist in the proximity fuse business, but it made him an expert...
...argued that the content material of present courses is too valuable to permit students to leave them. Certainly, however, almost every Gen Ed course is easily divisible; moreover, the course material is often repeated in upper level classes. General Education's purpose is to introduce students to the basic questions posed in each area, and the seminar system would probably be more effective at this...