Word: confront
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Esther Girling might have been as beautiful as her beautiful mother, but when she was five she was hideously disfigured in a fire in which her mother died. Her father could not bear her, nor could any other males; nor could Esther bear to confront men. When she was 14 she tried to seduce a boy; after that she kept her passion to herself. She had money, read romances ravenously, set desperate stock in a gypsy's prophecy of a house among trees in sunlight, a great love to come. In middle age she got the house...
...country; the potential mineral energy stored in the mountains of Wyoming and North Da kota; the potential water power that thunders down the rivers of the North west. Winding up ten years of fact-finding, FORTUNE's editors came out with: "Almost all the serious problems that now confront the U. S. have their origin . . . in the achievements of the U. S. They are not problems of poverty, but problems of abundance...
...liberal education is not one which is free of requirements but one which is designed to free human beings from ignorance and prejudice. Liberal education accordingly should give the student some idea of our common tradition of human experience and also the intellectual tools with which he can confront new problems successfully...
Struck by the lack of a determined goal towards which each undergraduate should aim, the Committee set up its definition of a liberal education as one which "frees human beings from ignorance and prejudice" and gives them "the intellectual tools with which they can confront new problems successfully." To the Committee four years of college should mean more than a number of courses strait-jacketed into a field of concentration. Rather they should have a "definite content...