Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gifted. What first fascinated Conant about the public school was its Jeffersonian character-the mixing of children from all social levels. At casteconscious Harvard, President Conant's great theme was the American tradition of respecting any man good at his trade. "Each honest calling, each walk of life,'' he said in a baccalaureate sermon, "has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments...
...captivated by what he saw in its architecture: the interplay of light and shadow, the union of building and garden. He came back to cast a jaundiced eye on the serried ranks of glass boxes rising along the main streets of Manhattan and other major cities. "Our life gives promise of being spent in look-alike houses, look-alike automobiles and look-alike buildings," he warned his fellow architects...
Some Lutherans, concerned that the trend to confession represents a risky rise in clerical power that is incompatible with Protestant principles, minimize it as a flash in the pan that flares in the fervor of a Kirchentag and subsides in the cooler air of everyday life. Yet a growing number of clergymen, like Munich's Pastor Adolf Sommerauer, see a strong and rising tide. "There are those who worry that confession could become a sort of fad. There is no need to propagate it. Now that it is known throughout the church that it is available, those who need...
...before the expiration of a three-year contract, the United Packinghouse Workers and the Amalgamated Meatcutters got Armour's signature to a two-year contract raising wages 8½?an hour the first year, another 6½?the second. Fringe benefits brought the package to 22? over the life of the contract, ranged from three-week vacations after twelve years (v. 15) to establishment of a $500,000 fund through company contributions to help retrain and relocate workers who lose their jobs through automation. Regarded as a milestone in industrial attempts to soften the impact of work-saving machines...
...some 30 students who are almost always young women and who worship the brilliant, temperamental master (three marriages, three divorces). The practice is constant (five hours daily), the discipline severe. Salzedo must have it that way. For him. at least, "the harp is to music what music is to life...