Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There have been other more controversial projects, the West End, for instance. People don't remember anything of when it was started, all they might remember is that it was cleared in 1957. They forget that I wasn't Mayor then. I inherited a place that was cleared with a...
The American Left learned first that it was not enough just to sing and carry signs for Peace. It learned second that it was also not enough to sit down and organize against war. The Left has had to admit that material self-interest must precede material sacrifice.
After the Bolsheviks came to power, Sorokin was sentenced to death. In 1918, imprisoned in Northern Russia and waiting for his execution, he learned that Lenin had personally intervened to save his life. Sorokin returned to the University of Petrograd whose department of Sociology he had founded.
The report was forwarded to IAC chairman Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, who was thought to have sent it immediately to the White House. But before Christmas, it was learned that the report was still sitting on Wirtz's desk, more than two weeks after completion.
Flying Sparks. Like his music, Nielsen's temperament blended traditional peasant qualities with a progressive sophistication and disenchantment. Born on the bucolic island of Fyn, he made his first "instrument" from various lengths of cordwood, which he banged with a hammer; later he learned violin and trumpet from his...