Word: felix
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Military leaders who read poetry and care what young girls think are anomalous to the American viewer. Felix Greene, a British film-maker who made Inside North Vietnam in 1967, documents an entire society of such anomalies. The literacy rate in Vietnam was lower after the French left than before they arrived in the nineteenth century, but North Vietnamese children attend school next to air-raid bunkers. When American bombers are sighted, the teacher bangs a gong and the kids retreat into the shelters. When the alarm is over, they emerge happily, grinning like American kids when the ice cream...
...years that the newspaper of the society's Oregon province has a feature headlined DEATHS?LEAVES?DEPARTURES. The emigrants are not merely from the ranks, either. U.S. Jesuits who have left have included such eminent names as Theologian Bernard Cooke, Maryland Provincial Edward Sponga and former Woodstock College Rector Felix Cardegna. In addition, the number of new recruits has plunged, especially in developed countries. The U.S.?the society's largest national community with 6,600 Jesuits?used to get some 350 novices each year; now it is down to fewer than...
...There has been a dramatic increase in reliance of government on academia as a talent pool. Howard Aiken and Felix Frankfurter were precursors of this increased reliance 35 years ago. Now there is a wide recognition, Bok said, of "how central advanced education is to everything in society." The emphasis on academics in public life means that "professors often have opportunities to work outside the University that did not exist 35 years...
...Oglala tribe adopted its constitution in 1936. Felix Cohen, a white attorney for the Department of the Interior, drew up the by-laws for the tribe. The constitutional government seems to have had little effect on Indian life at Pine Ridge. It is a white man's system, and few Oglalas acknowledge its existence...
...create as much friction as good will. For that matter, so did most of the major events of Mrs. Meir's six-day swing through Europe, which began with two days of dialogue and demonstration in Paris and ended with a strange Geneva meeting with Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny...