Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Security Council was trying hard, but it was getting nowhere at all on the two ticklish cases before it-Iran and Spain. Both cases turned on the extent to which the Council could act on the "internal affairs" of nations. The Russians thought the Council could go as far as it liked on Spain; the U.S. and Britain thought not. The Western powers thought the Council ought to know what was going on in Iran; Moscow couldn...
...secret of Idler's success in this half of their double bill undoubtedly lies to some extent in its choice of a play within its acting means; failure to practice this preachment proves the undoing of the remainder of the program. The Yeats translation of "Oedipus" may be meat for Laurence Olivier and the Old Vie, but it is so far beyond the resources of Radcliffe College and associated institutions as to make any effort at producing it almost worthless...
Luther is accused [TIME, April 1] of being the evil genius of Germany's absolutism, worse than Hitler. But in his Secular Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed, he writes: "But when a prince is in the wrong, are his people bound to follow him then too? I answer, No, for it is no one's duty to do wrong." Hardly compatible with the accusation leveled...
...Modern Burdens. Particularly, the Met does not wish to burden itself with European moderns, and is willing to leave the wisdom of its decision to history. According to Director Taylor, "a shallow, meaningless eclecticism has been . . . to a large extent the fashion of the past three generations." Traditionally, the Met has taken a cautious view of contemporary art: it possesses 27 Rembrandts and no Picassos. Its collection of 15th to 19th Century paintings is the most comprehensive on this side of the Atlantic...
Devoted to undergraduate instruction, and to some extent integrated with regular college programs, the Army Special- lzed Training Unit was instituted at the College in June, 1943. Intensive language courses, instruction in personnel psychology, and medical courses were offered to the selected trainees. By 1944 the ASTP program had been drastically cut and the majority of its members reassigned to the infantry...