Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to summarizing the daily news, WHRB's radio journalists try to give background coverage and variety to the news. The special events section arranges for lectures of general interest to be broadcast. Special events coverage this year, for example, has included the Godkin Lectures by Hugh Gaitskell. Through the efforts of special events, WHRB hopes to present this year's Will James Lectures, by J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...tutorial staff and house members. Here, more than in other houses, the tutors can regularly be found joining in at bridge, going out for a snack or drink with a few boys, joking around at a small party, or most often, just sitting and discussing some subject of general interest in the common room...
Officials of the English and History departments yesterday said that they were sympathetic towards the University's course reduction program, but noted little student interest in substituting individual projects for standard course work...
...former students, he will often take a point as the devil's advocate, in order to stimulate discussion and thinking. And he is always willing to shift his opinion in those rare cases in which he is bested. Asked whether he views teaching or research as the central interest of his life, he replied "There is no choice to be made. Good teaching is trying out one's ideas before they are published. One is forced to make up one's mind on troublesome questions." He eagerly encourages comment and criticism from his students, as well as being extremely interested...
...public behavior as he is in his standards of art. Yet his friends assert that one of the most remarkable things about this rather enigmatic man is his ability to laugh at himself and at the world. With a combination of strictly disciplined yet imaginative logic and endearing generosity, interest and vitality, there are few of his students or colleagues who do not find him an enormously stimulating if somewhat complex person...