Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expanded the free art classes for public-school children, set up traveling shows for not-too-distant boarding schools -Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's and Groton. He bought records for musicales at the museum, engaged orchestras traveling between Boston and New York for cut-rate Sunday concerts. Worcester was one of the first U.S. museums to exhibit foreign films. Some staid Worcesterites thought it "too cheapening for words," but a lot of the unstaid began to come in for a look. At first, some of them came just for the movies. When a staffer gloated over the fact that...
...light of mercy never shines on Akutagawa's parade of adulterers, murderers and bigots, he sometimes seems as cool and distant to human frailty as the grey shale that lines the heights of Fujiyama. But the sources of his own nihilism are made poignantly clear in a poem he penned a few months before his suicide...
Whatever the appearances, however, the result and the concommittants now under consideration are as thorough a perversion of liberal education as one could imagine. Coddling, protecting, and rigorously channeling undergraduates is the policy of small schools planted in distant woods, and the personal distortions it accomplishes have no place at a University. Of what use is it to a man's education that he is shielded from all those petty personal frictions which will afflict him for years to come? What chance do men have of maturing personally if committees here, committees there, committees every-where make all their social...
...ivory pedestal." The Princetonian reviewed the history of the Graduate college, especially Woodrow Wilson's opposition to it. As present of Princeton Wilson wanted its graduate school to be "at the very heart of the campus" while the dean of the school. Andrew Fleming West favored a distant location and an aloof conception for his school. Eventually west favored a distant location and au aloof conception for his school. Eventually West aided by an offer of a $4 million bequest for his "separate" Graduate college, swung most Princeton alumni to his side and Wilson reassigned taking as consolation the post...
...this conflict sprung a band of militant Torch Commandos led by Sailor Malan, a distant relation to the Premier. Their motto: Save the constitution. "They are working in close union with the anti-administration United party." Box said, "focusing attention on this issue with night time demonstrations...