Word: georgetown
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...publications by Desan and Odajnyk are clear and extraordinary studies of Sartre's views on Marxism. Desan, a professor of philosophy at Georgetown, has written what is largely a guide to understanding the Critique. Odajnyk instead compares the "systems" of Marxism and existentialism and deals with the weaknesses in each...
...hour. What looked like a stroke of intuitive genius one day seemed to be a blunder of impulsive foolishness the next. Nobody has found this more frustrating than the President of the U.S. Said Lyndon Johnson in a four-hour, after-dinner talkfest with some 30 journalists in the Georgetown home of Columnist Max Freedman: "We think we've got something patched up there and then it falls apart...
...Harvard in 1961 by John Kennedy to become Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy. Surrey, 54, earns his $27,000 a year by putting in ten hours a day, six days a week at his paper-strewn desk, lugs a briefcase stuffed with documents to his Georgetown home most nights, rarely takes a vacation. Surrey has a grasp of taxation that has impressed Congressmen and Presidents alike, but he is such an articulate advocate of tax reform and such an implacable foe of tax loopholes that oil, mining and banking interests tried to block his nomination. He helped...
...side, Lyndon taught Houston's first Dale Carnegie course for businessmen. To teach poise, he would stand in a corner and heckle his Carnegie students as they spoke. His teaching career ended in 1932, when he Turned to politics. He enrolled in Georgetown Law School in 1934 but did not complete the semester...
...keeps the Jesuits ahead is, in large measure, the fire and zeal of younger members of the society, who have plenty of ideas of what ought to be done. Many would like to see the society abandon all but a handful of its best universities-such as Fordham and Georgetown-and send its top professors to jobs at secular universities. Bored with an outdated classical curriculum, they would like more training in social and physical sciences, greater freedom to develop a Christian theology for the racial struggle and international development. "You can't affect the world...