Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearing on WGBH-TV, Channel 2, Woodworth will discuss symphonic music from Mozart to Prokofieff. He stated that the course is designed "to train students in intelligent listening" and "to survey the main currents in the development of musical style...
Brooding over this unsettling report, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory two weeks ago took advantage of a routine Paris meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to discuss some highly private business with West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and French Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. The fruits of that chat were harvested late last week, when the British treasury laconically announced that it had decided to make the pound sterling "externally convertible...
...only reason for studying a language, Conant observed, is to achieve "something approaching a mastery. And by this I mean the ability to read with ease a foreign newspaper and discuss it intelligently with a native of the country in question . . . This degree of mastery . . . cannot be reached in two years." Conant's recommendations: the most able scholars-at least the top 15% of U.S. high school students-should take four years of one language. Further, they should be urged to elect three years of another language, with the assumption that they will continue study of the second language...
Returning after a two-week Christmas recess, the delegates will discuss problems dealing with specific inspection arrangements and voting procedures. The key question is whether or not the Russians will accept a truly international system of control to prevent nuclear test cheating
...Politburo. The Kremlin has indeed been sounding an uncertain note of late, in its diplomatic huffing and puffing on Berlin. It threatens time limits, then withdraws them. It fills the air with windy ultimatums. Last week the Russians said again that unless the Western powers showed themselves ready to discuss the status of Berlin "in a businesslike manner," the U.S.S.R. would turn control of the ground and air corridors to Berlin over to the East Germans, and if an attempt was made to keep the corridors open by force, warned Khrushchev, "this would mean...