Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your March 25 article on veterans' homebuilding, you say "The American Legion backs the increase in the VA interest rate." This reads like a lie to this legionnaire of W. W II. But after all, I forgot that some legionnaires of W.W. I ,are now the fattened money lenders of W.W. II. They deserve the Purple Heart for the wounds they suffer at the rate of 4½%. Did anybody ever stop to think that the prices of houses are too damned high...
...denounced Western avant-gardism, but went on to enthusiastic praise for an unregenerate formalist, Hungary's late Bela Bartok. Continued Khachaturian: "The seeking and daring artist is worth more than the well-trained craftsman who blindly copies . . . the great past masters." What added to his statement's interest was a list of young Soviet composers Khachaturian considers promising. This gave the West virtually its first glimpse of an almost unknown younger generation of composers. Among them: ¶Boris Tchaikovsky, 31, whose Slavic Rhapsody for Orchestra has stirred up much talk in Russia...
...announced that it would revamp its curriculum to make students rely more than ever before upon their own reading (TIME, March 25). A few days later, Amherst answered that it would try out an experimental reading course "designed to permit upperclassmen to read widely in a special field of interest, with no supervision." Last year Marquette started an "optional class privilege" (i.e., unlimited cuts) program for top students, and this year Williams began putting its better boys in special small seminars, now lets them carry out research projects to wherever those projects might lead (sample subject: annihilation of positrons...
Washington, April 12--A large-scale investigation of the nation's financial condition, including taxes, interest charges and debt, was voted unanimously by the Senate Finance Committee today in a surprise move...
Aside from the segregation conflict, the most important Constitutional controversy now in progress involves the question of determining Presidential disability. President Eisenhower has demonstrated as intense an interest in the question as he has shown for almost any other issue of his second term...