Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bruno de Leusse of the French Foreign Ministry will speak on "France and Algeria" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Adams House Lower Common Room. Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel Room of Phillips Brooks House, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., professor of History, will address the Harvard Young Democratic Club...
...took a bit of doing, but at last it had come about-a Mediterranean peace conference at which Europeans, Israelis and Arabs would demonstrate their unity through "their common faith in one God." For months La Pira, 54, the dedicated but visionary former mayor of Florence, who once brought his city to the edge of bankruptcy by his lavish program of public works, had worked night and day to compile his volatile guest list. When the conference began in Florence's 600-year-old Palazzo Vecchio. just about everyone invited was there, including eleven ambassadors. Even Italy...
Plan Ahead. The one common denominator that sociologists, psychiatrists, gerontologists and geriatricians see in all the actively productive oldsters of this or any other time in history is a keen continuing interest in some activity, which carries with it a revitalizing sense of participation in life. This may be, Sloan fashion, a continuation of earlier activity, but with a switch from administration to policy, or a new career in public service. It may be that a former avocation can be turned into a vocation. But "make-work" hobbies will not do. The oldster, like the human being...
...practice of medicine but also the world's social, political and economic structure, gerontologists turn both to their test tubes and to individuals like Amos Alonzo Stagg. From him and the men on nearby rungs of time's ladder they hope to learn what are the common denominators in longevity-and, more especially, in useful longevity. For they subscribe to the motto: "Not just to add years to life, but to add life to years...
Judson Brown, 101, longtime secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, who was active until close to the century mark. And at that milestone, he was forward-looking enough to say: "I do not sympathize with the common lament that young people today are not what they used to be. Thank God they...