Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball in his honor, the President chatted with the guests (who paid $10 a head), but declined to test the dance floor. "I'm a Baptist, you know," Harry Truman explained, "but not a lightfoot one, so I didn't learn to dance." Forty minutes later, the President was ready to leave; the next day would be a big one. ". . . Come out to the stadium tomorrow," Baptist Truman suggested, "and I'll tell you something good for your souls...
...itself. "God is power," explains the smiling, priestly torturer. Thus, to be Godlike, the man of 1984 must have such power over himself as to be capable of nothing but "utter submission" to the invisible Big Brother. By practising the Newspeak art of doublethink, he must learn to believe in the very core of his being that even "the stars can be near or distant, according as we [the party] need them." Only then can he become "immortal"-his identity lost in the deathless unity of the party...
...days ago, the House un-American Activities Committee, which Martin Dies commanded in its hey-day from 1938 to 1944, announced that it was going to poke its nose into school and college textbooks. The Committee doesn't plan to learn anything useful from this excursion; it just wants to see if any Bolshevism lurks in these volumes...
...Avenue, which fronts the school, and he thanked me for stopping by. Then, looking up the street at the Russian embassy, he said: 'We like to think that we are teaching our students to be good citizens of their own countries, and at the same time letting them learn how good the American way is. TIME is helping us do that...
...would have time to learn. This fall, he will come over to the Met when the Edinburgh Festival is finished, look over Johnson's shoulder as "manager-designate" for a season before taking over on his own three-year contract. What he will see is a challenge to any man: money troubles, overage scenery, outdated lighting and staging techniques, under-enthusiastic singing and acting. But at least he will get plenty of advice. The Daily News's John Chapman spoke for the other critics: "Man and boy, I've been telling Johnson and [Giulio] Gatti-Casazza before...