Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Koestler does not stop at divulging the internal forces that molded his character and destiny. He tries--too hard--to discuss the world developments between 1905-31 that led him to embrace Zionism an eventually the "progressive schizophrenia" of Communism. Here the reader's interest flags. I think he...
"Freedom of experimentation" and "freedom to be excellent" are further tasks and privileges of the private college, Jordan said. "The scholar finds . . . a more congenial intellectual environment in the privately endowed university: we must see that this continues to be true, he added.
This was the environment that produced George Patton, a fine, slashing tactician but who thought the struggle between Nazis and anti-Nazis was just like a lot of Democrats and Republicans. Yet a clutch of wiser men rose from this ruck and were ready when World War II demanded them...
Mark Clark is a product of the military environment since early childhood. Son of a career officer, he was born on an Army post-at Madison Barracks, N.Y. He was wounded in France; after World War I he began his slow climb up the rungs. He was a captain for...
The weakness of Head Against the Wall is that nowhere does its author show the causes of Arthur's collapse. At one or two points Novelist Bazin hints that his hero is a persecuted rebel, and the publisher, taking up this cue, describes Arthur as "a young man victimized...