Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Mission. In the fundamentals of its teachings in the last 15 years there had been little change. Its "mission," as set forth in document, directive and memoranda, was still the same: to develop military character, physical fitness, and give a broad professional education. To this the current Secretary of...
On the broad boulevards their jeeps competed with oxcarts, with bicycles thick as gnats. Tooting streetcars fairly bulged with grinning Koreans, all in white. Pedestrians gave ground to nothing on wheels; they did not walk like conquered men. In twisted alleys and along the teeming Bun Chung, G.I.s shopped for...
New Zealand: "There has been nothing blatant about United States publicity. It has been directed almost exclusively along cultural lines, with the objective of explaining the American way of life and promoting better understanding."
Neither the existing nor a new increased distribution requirement will meet the demand for a broad cultural basis, the Committee feels. What is needed is a new type of introductory course of greater depth, designed explicitly for those who will not continue in the field. A minimal number of these...
Phony Culture. Author Hauser was raised in old-world Weimar, home of Goethe and Schiller, and one of German culture's most sacred shrines. Academic, humanistic Weimar prided itself on representing the exact opposite of German militarism. But to young Hauser, Weimar's "phony cultural activities" were the...