Word: kiri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barr, former president of St. John's College, Scott Buchanan, former dean of St. John's, and Mark Van Doren, English professor at Columbia-have answered long & loud: make U.S. education truly liberal. That means, according to Adler, that 1) American college professors must commit academic hara-kiri by giving up their specialized fields; they should be able to teach anything in the liberal arts; 2) the scientific method should stick to science, and leave to philosophy the job of determining matters of right & wrong; 3) all Americans should get the same kind of liberal education till they...
...number of suicides in Japan rose from 10,105 in 1944 to 18,368 last year. Time-honored hara-kiri is giving way to less spectacular methods-hanging, poisoning, drowning or jumping in front of trains. Main motives: money troubles, disillusionment with the postwar world, ill-health, thwarted love...
...trade. The plain implication: unless Hollywood relented, FCC would be forced to rule against movie producers' applications for new TV stations. Harry Brandt, the outraged president of the Independent Theater Owners Association, promptly charged that FCC was trying to "blackjack the motion-picture industry into committing hara-kiri...