Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East review was believed to have focused on the bitter argument between Iraq and the United Arab Republic, which has raised tensions throughout the entire area. Top American officials are known to favor a strict hands-off policy toward this quarrel...
...Lucey, Stevenson-pledged but Kennedy-prone, a protégé of Wisconsin's Johnson-baiting Senator William Proxmire, called a quick meeting of about a dozen of the 27 members of the party's administrative committee, got them to vote for an innocent statement in favor of allowing Wisconsin voters "to participate as fully as possible" in the Wisconsin primary. Then, before anyone knew what he was up to, Chairman Lucey mailed letters of invitation and copies of the statement to seven top Democratic hopefuls: Humphrey, Kennedy, Michigan's Soapy Williams, Missouri's Stuart Symington...
Monro added, however, that he would favor the availability of more House suites for resident tutors as an eventual alternative...
...days of classical education in secondary schools such a course would be unnecessary. However, with Latin and Greek no longer in favor and Bible reading for its own sake almost a thing of the past, some means must be found to make the myth, not the footnote, come alive for modern students. It seems sentimental to believe that a student who has already passed the language requirement will begin a program of Greek in order to read Homer in the original. It is not unrealistic, however, to study classical works in translation as myths which are to occur again...
...people. The danger of this impression of cosmopolitanism lies not merely in its inaccuracy, but in the convenient rationale it affords for an escape from one's own background. While the student sloughs off childhood attributes, he is tempted to discard many of the values developed at home in favor of the new ones he imagines to have found here. But Harvard, while it spurns the richness of a full American tradition, does not provide a satisfactory Continental substitute. To the undergraduate, Europe is a spectrum ranging from Germany's "Hegelian mysticism" to England's ubiquitous middle class muddling through...