Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defects. Stokes devotes 14 pages to last year's controversy between Cardinal Spellman and Mrs. Roosevelt. He says that the Cardinal's final statement limiting the Roman Catholic request to "auxiliary aids" for parochial schools, e.g., bus transportation, free lunches, medical care, was "of epoch-making importance as far as church-state relations in the United States are concerned. It was the first time that the hierarchy, represented by one of its most prominent members . . . recognized publicly that direct aid for the support of parochial schools was . . . unconstitutional...
...educators also disagreed on the usefulness of the university in the development of western culture. Hutchins said he believed universities have "never fashioned the mind of any epoch after the middle ages. Minds of this age have been fashioned by individual men with little or no university connection--for example--Mars, Darwin, and Freud...
...This epoch is of quite exceptional interest to the historians of the Soviet Union," notes Biographer Eckardt, who is a professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg. Like the Soviet historians, Eckardt goes over Ivan's matted reign with a fine-tooth comb; unlike them, he refrains from minimizing the diabolical cruelties of a despot who made even such a hard-faced operator as Cesare Borgia look like a cherubic innocent. Nonetheless, Eckardt does his best to follow the rule he paraphrases from Philosopher Benedetto Croce: "Not to insist upon a description of horrors in history...