Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan's leading novelists, and this book, written a decade ago, is a neat compendium of what is best and worst in contemporary Japanese writing. Esoteric discussions of Tokyo v. Osaka folkways lead imperceptibly to the dramatic outer and inner conflict of a Japan in transition. The core of meaning, which the Westerner will perhaps find hard to penetrate, is the concept of a heroism that never indulges in triumphs of the will and Promethean wrestlings with destiny, but bends to the winds of fate like a reed and, never breaking, wins the subtler triumph of endurance...
...until World War II, the hard core of American science was to a large extent the individual scholar working alone and voluntarily sharing his work with like-minded people. But then came radar and the atomic bomb and the "need to do something about these quickly. The pace was speeded up, and every available young man was thrown into the effort. As many of these young men were not yet in a position to work freely on their own, and as much of the effort was of a military and secret nature, scientific tasks were divided up by the [scientific...
Since Swedish women began seriously agitating for admission to the ministry in 1919, the core of opposition has been the older generation of clergymen who take literally Biblical injunctions against female equality, such as St. Paul's in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: "Let your women-keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience . . .'' Women Theologians? Seeking to avoid an open split between the old guard and the church's young, liberal pastors, ailing Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, primate of the state...
...response to the appeal, the PBH General Hospitals Committee will attempt to recruit "about 100" students to work round the clock in five hour shifts. The Committee hopes to put about four or five volunteers on each shift. The present members of the PBH Hospitals Committee will form the core of the group, but more students and wives of faculty members will be needed to fill the required quota...
Crisis for Nationalists. From these small beginnings in the jungle at Jamshedpur, the Tata mill has become the core of a $320 million complex of more than 25 companies with 150,000 employees, 1956 sales of $155 million. Like other Indian businessmen, the Tatas strongly supported Indian independence. When it came, the Indian government was under strong pressure from the left to nationalize Tata Enterprises. Except for the Tata-founded Air India airline and the Tatas' life insurance business, which the government did take over, nationalization schemes came to naught. The chief reason was that if India bought...