Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper teaching of science is probably the greatest problem before American secondary education. Yet the schools must not only teach more physics and chemistry, but should also face the issue of the isolation of science--make science and scientists seem relevant to the citizen, and indeed make citizenship seem relevant to the scientist and bring him into the community...
...Face to Face. The resolution made no direct reference to a summit meeting with Russia, but the implication was clear in the words: There can be "no substitute for personal encounter in the pursuit of human understanding . . . When men who profess the Christian religion make no adequate provision for a face-to-face encounter with their enemies, they betray the religion which they profess...
...insensible bloodlessness during the 4-g pullout, rose from the seat cushion, I felt the exhilaration of restored circulation (and noted the lasting aptness of the old barnstormer's motto: you fly by the seat of your pants). I "dropped" the sinker in front of my masked face. It stayed there, floating. The merest delicate touch sent it gliding, featherlike, right or left, up or down, forward or aft. I was as happy as I would have been with a stringless yoyo. This was one place where a lead balloon would make...
Last week Sherwood had to face his sternest refuters, members of the Navajo's own tribal council. He had half an hour to commiserate with them; they had half an hour to reject his misbegotten sympathy. The Indians, in full war regalia, scalped him with little forensic grace but plenty of feeling. The tribe's executive secretary effectively refuted "the absurd and erroneous assertions of one Don Sherwood." Sherwood backed down, muttering, "I had my reservations about this...
...probably Jack Kerouac and Clellon (Go) Holmes. Each insists that the Beat Generation is on a mystic search for God. To be beat, argues Holmes in a recent Esquire, is to be "at the bottom of your personality looking up." Says Kerouac: "I want God to show me His face." This might be more convincing if Kerouac's novels did not play devil's advocate by preaching, in effect, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of kicks," e.g., drink, drugs, jazz and chicks...