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...likely to come of Professor Murdock's recent expression of interest in Advanced Placement exams to exempt students from General Education courses. The compromise between "liberal education" and a modified distribution requirement which is the foundation of the General Education program is so uneasy that any attempt to disturb it will encounter opposition from some quarter, and any sort of exemption would require a revision of basic philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Open Curriculum | 4/29/1959 | See Source »

...miles above the earth's surface? What were the prospects of coping with oncoming enemy ballistic missiles by exploding nuclear warheads high above the earth? Could the Soviet Union use high-up explosions to cheat on a test-ban agreement? How much would high-up nuclear explosions disturb radio communications and the radar detection that is indispensable to U.S. defenses against bomber or missile attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Voyage of Norton Sound | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...first glance, the painting seems a straightforward depiction of the moment, two hours before the Crucifixion, when Christ was beaten, spat upon and mocked. But as in all Bosch paintings, the viewer becomes aware of overtones that disturb and echo in the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: ENIGMATIC MYSTIC - | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came from the Post's Richard Watts, who said the play had a "haunting fascination" but poked three logical holes in the script, then concluded: "It must be a tribute to the play that such queries did disturb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between our two countries and that the Bolivian Government officials would take all steps to avoid further incidents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Luce Morals | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

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