Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your April 16 "Guest at Breakfast," I get an uneasy feeling reading (and even rereading) how Washington Post and Times-Herald Publisher Graham's "men of good will were embarrassed by the Hiss case." Does being "men of good will" necessitate defending Hiss against Nixon before the facts were in (like Acheson and Stevenson), and then, after Hiss was proved a perjurer and traitor, continue attacking Nixon because he "used the subversion issue as a political weapon"? Maybe such subtle Ivy League logic is too refined for us coarse Westerners; maybe that's why New Dealish defenders...
Washington's Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta turned up as a guest traveloguist at the Woman's National Democratic Club, startled the ladies with a tale of a "birth house" she saw in Russia in 1953. Perle's theory: the Soviets brainwash expectant mothers to achieve painless childbirth. In the maternity center she had observed 20 women, "none in pain. They took one or two deep breaths and the child was born." Added Perle: "They used the same brainwash for the mothers that they used for the war prisoners and soldiers [see SCIENCE...
...colleges can boast the type of guest lecturer that the NWC can command, e.g., Vice President Nixon on foreign policy, Lebanon's Charles Malik on the Middle East, Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce on U.S. policy toward Italy. Between lectures and seminars, NWC students must also prepare annual theses of 6,000 to 12,000 words on such subjects as "Racial Factors in International Relations" or "The Korean Armistice and Its Consequences." Then during their last weeks they reach the climax of the term: each student gets a 23-day field trip to Europe, or Asia, or South America...
...would, of course, present some problems in administration. He would have to be given at least as much academic freedom as an American professor would expect. This might mean that students would be subjected to unorthodox examinations or some other Slavic peculiarity. A Russian professor, however, as a guest would probably try to accomodate himself to the American system...
...Three hours after he had arrived, he retrieved his cap with dignity from under a picture of Stalin and walked firmly down the gangway, carrying himself like a piece of priceless porcelain and bearing farewell gifts of caviar and whale's teeth. "Don't bother our distinguished guest," said genial Host Solianik to pier-side reporters. "He's still enjoying the pleasures of the table...