Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomatic posts to repay political debts to party fat-cats whom they were glad to have out of the way, Franklin Roosevelt has stationed two of his favored advisers, Joe Kennedy and Bill Bullitt, in important embassies abroad. Last week Mr. Kennedy in London advised Democracies and Dictators to learn to get on together in the same world...
...most rudimentary, untutored aesthetic consciousness. Yet it could not evoke in your criticism even the most backneyed cliches of our introductory fine arts courses, which, after all, whether trite or significant, do at least say and mean something. How intriguing, how illuminating, how it enhances one's appreciation to learn that Degas' dancing girls were "almost vicious in their vices," and "Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity (sic!) which can hardly be excelled and his handling of many different bodily postures is expert in the highest degree!" What imbecile would be willing to confess to writing such...
Against a background of the Haitian uprising led by Toussaint L' Ouverture in 1802 is painted the picture of a girl, who has been brought up in a French family only to learn that she is half Negress. Behind her sudden renunciation of her country and finance and her espousal of the Haitian cause is less patriotism than the admission of a type of "inferiority" too often decried in this country, though seldom recognized in France. Because it is alien to the democratic spirit and because it may easily offend many whose money supports the Federal Theatre, the choice...
This fall, freshmen entering St. John's had no option. For four years they will study in classes only the 100 classics, no modern thinkers, no modern science. They are required to learn passages from the classics by heart, take frequent quizzes. Only departure from the 100 books: students may listen to a college collection of symphonic phonograph records, learn to play the piano...
...theorist responsible for this Duke retreat is the Law School dean, tanned, pipe-smoking Hugo Claude Horack, a hunter and fisherman. Dean Horack used to be investigator of legal education for the American Bar Association, and he concluded that the best place for barristers to learn law and social responsibility is in a quiet, simple atmosphere. Last summer he had five log cabins built as an experiment. One is a recreation centre. Eight students live and study in each of the others. But students are spared Abraham Lincoln's handicaps. They study not by firelight but by electric light...