Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the programs of all 12 Niemans, certain courses run as pronounced favorites. Eleven are taking Professor Frederick Merk's "History of the Westward Movement," while other popular courses include Professor John K. Fairbank's History of "Far Eastern Civilization," Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger's "Cultural History of the United States," and visiting Professor Robert Wolf's "Russia and the West...
Horrible or not, said Bacon, his pictures were not supposed to mean a thing. "They are just an attempt to make a certain type of feeling visual . . . Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas...
...theologians holds that the act of the judge in pronouncing a divorce is merely an official declaration that the state regards the civil effects of the marriage as no longer existing. Since this declaration is in itself a morally indifferent action, it can be permitted, at least in certain circumstances...
Like a man thinking out loud, Scientist Bush tries to answer certain questions: What would a third world war be like? Would the U.S. be ready for it? Could the U.S. win it? Could civilization survive the holocaust made possible by the new techniques of war? No one is better qualified to answer such questions than Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and of the project which produced the atom bomb; but in answering them he only half succeeds in removing from them the terror of the half-seen...
What is needed to remedy this situation is a modification of the present universal language requirement. Since it is feasible that men in certain departments like European history or science might find some use for a language, they should continue to meet at least the present minimum requirement. Perhaps there should even be a broader and more comprehensive one, including some basic knowledge of foreign culture and intellectual history. But for others, an altogether different standard should be set perhaps in some cases no standard at all, since a little language is not worth much...