Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bradford practiced corporation law in Manhattan for nine years before joining the Times as assistant to the publisher in 1947. There he rose steadily through the executive ranks. His position on the Times, plus his law background, made him the Publishers Association's logical choice to confront the printers' truculence...
...hopes and needs. At first regarded as a transitional Pope who would only warm the chair of Peter, he took over the Catholic Church in 1958 at an age (nearly 77) when he was able to leap over the administrative details and parochial interests of the papacy and confront the world as "the universal shepherd." Unlike his predecessor, the scholarly and aloof Pius XII, John lets his interests range far beyond the Catholic fold to embrace the fundamental plight of man in the modern world...
...overwrought reasons for joining the church, and his equally intense motives for abandoning it, are used to give us a feeling for the narrow, degrading set of experience on which an American Negro must base his most important decisions. Then he tells of the problems that confront a Negro who decides to quit Harlem. He generalizes his own experience into a description of the relationship between a sensitive Negro and the ominous white world that surrounds him, and of Christianity and the Africans who adopted...
...social one. The advocates of this plan wanted to put history majors in one College, scientists in another, humanists in a third. Unfortunately, there weren't enough clearly definable intellectual types to go round; the plan also contradicted rather flagrantly the principle that a University should confront its students with as much diversity as possible...
...social one. The advocates of this plan wanted to put history majors in one College, scientists in another, humanists in a third. Unfortunately, there weren't enough clearly definable intellectual types to go round; the plan also contradicted rather flagrantly the principle that a University should confront its students with as much diversity as possible...