Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Career. Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, 70 miles from Hiroshima, son of a poor sake manufacturer and an aristocratic mother (her father was a samurai) who demanded perfection. Nobusuke (meaning: defender of the trust) was a child prodigy at school, specialized in German law at Tokyo University, graduated at the...
An essential misunderstanding between Hinduism and Christianity is in the contrast between teaching and preaching. By explaining the meaning of Hindu doctrine to his pupil and guiding him in controlled living, the Hindu master hopes to lead him to enlightenment. "That is why the Hindu is always perplexed by Christian...
The newest member of the Supreme Court, Republican Charles Evans Whittaker, has not yet been around long enough to become identified with any group. (The arguments in both the Du Pont and Jencks cases had started before Whittaker joined the court.) But it is in Whittaker that the Supreme Court...
Still the Original Facts. From Wisconsin Meiklejohn moved on to San Francisco, where he started a pioneering adult-education program that soon had 300 men and women delving into the great philosophers. With World War II this project, too, melted away, and Alexander Meiklejohn finally retired to his modest house...
While sweating out the budget-axing mood of Congress, plane and missile makers last week were shaken by the unhappy prospect of a still bigger cut by the usually friendly Pentagon. At hearings of a Senate appropriations subcommittee, the meaning of a directive issued by Defense Secretary Charles Wilson three...