Word: longing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doorstops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. Now I read all the time. Same with music. I still like pop tunes but I'm getting to be a longhair too. A few years ago I thought anybody who liked to listen to symphonies wore long underwear...
...educators and architects have long been agreed on at least one point: the nation needs new schools. But, said ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week, "it is a sad-and little recognized-fact that the pitifully inadequate supply of taxpayer's dollars is, in most big U.S. cities, being spent for the wrong kind of schools." To show what it meant, the FORUM devoted its entire October issue to the U.S. school...
...brought lecturers of every nationality. She organized an annual UNESCO day, started forums on international problems, packed juniors off for a year of study abroad. Sweet Briar, founded as a ladies' seminary, came alive with international chatter. On bridle paths and under the colonnades, Sweet Briar girls talked long and earnestly about the state of the universe. President Lucas herself often joined in their discussions...
...newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today." She had been thinking about the project a long time: "Plato once said that it is the duty of every philosopher to go down into a cave and shape his thoughts. I've been down in the cave. Now, I'm coming...
This autumn French newspapers and educators bitterly complained about the bac and the old-fashioned competitive system it stands for. First set up in 1808, the exams have long been attacked by progressives as a "savage rite of French bourgeois snobbism." Philosopher-Scholar Etienne Gilson coupled the bac with alcoholism as the "twin scourges of the French people." Novelist René Barjavel complained in the weekly Carrefour, "[the bachot] is just a slip of paper proving that its owner has a minimum of general knowledge...