Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRAZIL'S President Juscelino Ku-bitschek, out to develop his sprawling, potentially rich nation at any price, has snowballed an economic boom just one miraculous jump ahead of his creditors. What are President Kubitschek's chances of staying out in front until the inflationary boom starts paying off? See THE HEMISPHERE, The Bumblebee...
...seed of the idea that is to blossom in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. "The beneficial influence of this great cultural adventure," said he, "will not be limited to our own borders. Here will occur a true interchange of the fruits of national cultures. From this will develop a growth that will spread to the corners of the earth, bringing with it the kind of human message that only individuals-not government-can transmit. Here will develop a mighty influence for peace and understanding throughout the world." Then the President descended from the stand, and with a silver...
...Scrolls, a Fountain. Coming to the U.S. from his native Vienna in 1926, Kiesler took up teaching at Columbia in the 1930s, amazed his students with suggestions that they develop spiral buildings, semicircular projection screens, "floating cities" wrapped in cocoonlike weather protectors, and "horizontal skyscrapers" suspended like bridges. In the 1940s he built great open sculptures and clusters of pictures "to relax inside" and designed striking stage sets for No exit and The Magic Flute...
...borrower is servant unto the lender holds true in every instance"). With a generous tax policy and no currency restrictions-the U.S. dollar is the medium of exchange-Liberia has attracted more than $120 million in foreign capital. The Italians are building roads, the West Germans are helping to develop a new port along the southern coast, and the Israelis are putting up a new hospital, hotel, treasury building and executive mansion. Goodrich is planting 3,000 acres of rubber trees, and Liberia's own rubber crop now equals that of Firestone...
Open Mind. Much of the discussion concerned the basic question of what role religion should play in tax-supported schools. Nobody was entirely satisfied with religious "lessons" by secular teachers. Rabbi Gordis decried handing over the work of church and home to public schools, which might develop a "religion-by-rote." Agnostic Lekachman agreed: "I consider religion to be much too important in human history to see it reduced to a patriotic exercise in the classroom...