Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college professor: ". . . You have cut to the core of the matter and outlined a basic foreign policy in clearer and more logical terms than any other individual...
Author Thomas gives concise, thoughtful sketches of half a dozen top Tibetan officials, the hard core of the hardest theocracy in the world. The sketches compose what may be one of the last close-ups of a strange ruling class, compound of enlightenment and cruelty, high spirituality and human self-seeking. The author plays some of his characters for discreet laughs -as when a high lama muses on the possible numbers of unrecognized reincarnations of the Buddha. "For instance," he reminded his guests, "take your own President-undoubtedly he is a living Buddha...
...useless to attempt to "blame" anyone for this current trend in American thinking, the colleges certainly bring no credit on themselves by submitting to the trend without a protest. As Professor Handlin pointed out in his Atlantic Monthly article, the youth of this country has formed the core of every progressive movement, and it is a discouraging symptom when we submit so readily to the complacency of our elders. A few voices in protest--though they have no immediate effect--are still pleasant to hear. David R. Lide...
Britain's Fabian Society, the little core of intellectuals who began back in 1884 to preach the inevitability of socialism without revolution, finally got around to choosing a new president. The choice: Sir Stafford Cripps, now in Switzerland un der treatment for a spinal ailment. He succeeds his aunt, the late Beatrice Webb, the society's first and only other president, who died...
...Houses. ". . .the House Plan has become a vital core." It should be improved by being even more closely knit into the educational fabric of the College through debate and perhaps adoption of some of the recommendations of the committee on "Advising at Harvard College...