Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although not every student in the house writes a novel, this easy interplay between tutor and student, carried on over a Central Kitchen cup of coffee, is found at every meal, and everywhere tutors and students meet. At the supper table, at the billiards table, as well as at the office table, tutor-student relationships are close...
...former students, he will often take a point as the devil's advocate, in order to stimulate discussion and thinking. And he is always willing to shift his opinion in those rare cases in which he is bested. Asked whether he views teaching or research as the central interest of his life, he replied "There is no choice to be made. Good teaching is trying out one's ideas before they are published. One is forced to make up one's mind on troublesome questions." He eagerly encourages comment and criticism from his students, as well as being extremely interested...
...interview before his speech, Slessor indicated that the one hopeful place in the international picture is in central Europe. The recent revolts in Hungary and Poland, instigated by the supposedly completely indoctrinated youth, in an encouraging sign of "unconquerable human beings," he stated...
...selected collections as that recently acquired by Philadelphia's Museum of Art (opposite). Containing 49 carved stone sculptures and temple fragments ranging from a 2nd-to-1st century B.C. sandstone relief on a post of a temple railing to a four-faced Siva-Linga that once topped the central column of a Hindu shrine, the collection covers more than 15 centuries, together makes up what museum officials unhesitatingly call "the most important group of Indian stone sculptures to be seen outside of India itself...
Perhaps it is only natural that the script should be friendly to the central character. Through most of the picture he is presented as a man more robbed than robbing, an honest Missouri dirt farmer who was driven to desperate ventures by the cruel Yankee-panky of his neighbors in the days that followed the Civil War. "He's just a man," somebody sobs, "who loves his family and his home." Matter of fact, as Robert Wagner plays the part with soft suburban face, the hero could pass for a rising young broker. As for all that gunplay...