Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon reading Bernard Iddings Bell's rather brutal condemnation of the educational shortcomings in the American Common Man [TIME, April 25], I was seized with the thought that here is a situation for which a remedy must be found...
...Bernard Iddings Bell . . . [is] entirely right in his arguments, but where does his educational program...
...really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom the whole world recognizes," Eleanor Roosevelt...
Long Shot. In Philadelphia, several days, after Bernard Goodis had lost a full ($32) wallet, he got it back empty in the mail, with a note: "I put your money on a horse; if it pays off I will return your...
Winston Churchill sent a little bread-&-butter present, delivered by hand by daughter Sarah, to Bernard Baruch, his host on his recent U.S. trip (TIME, April 4): a 24-by-36-inch Winston Churchill watercolor landscape...