Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dismal early life-born and bred in a mud-and-reed hut, boy shepherd, child laborer in the coal mines, whipped unforgettably with a knotted nagaika while caught fishing on a princely estate. He was semiliterate until his mid-208, when he was sent, along with other Red army civil war veterans, to Lenin's Rabfak (workers' school). He learned his political skill in the apparatus-secretaryships in the Donets Basin, Moscow, the Ukraine; straw boss on digging the Moscow subways-and he translated it, in his first big assignment, into his ruthless purges of Ukrainian nationalists before...
...that, De Gaulle's imaginative proposals for the first time offered the world real reason to hope that the seemingly interminable struggle, which a year ago drove France itself to the verge of civil war, might be almost over. In Washington, Dwight Eisenhower spoke for millions in the Western world when he declared: "I am greatly encouraged by General de Gaulle's courageous and statesmanlike declaration . . . It is a plan that I think is worthy of General de Gaulle's efforts...
...Shield, insurance company indemnity plans, or a special group-practice plan with a contracted pool of doctors. Scheduled to go into effect July 1, 1960, the new program will cost $222 million annually, to be shared in most cases on a fifty-fifty basis by the Government and individual civil servants...
Michel de Montaigne, living in a France racked by sanguinary religious and civil war, wrote with a tolerance rare for his day: "It is setting a very high price on one's conjectures to burn a man alive for them." The skeptical Catholic would probably be delighted at the temper which prevails on the Harvard faculty today; for even the most convinced believers sharply divorce teaching from proselytizing, much less contemplating coercion by brand and faggot...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, introduces freshmen and upperclassmen to the various doctrines of philosophy in Philosophy 1. For the freshman, especially one who comes from a relatively sheltered religious background, the introduction to such thinkers as Spinoza and Hume may prove novel and disquieting. Demos admits some students may be shaken by an introduction to skepticism...