Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the fund is aimed at attracting students from non-college oriented areas, the recipient still must meet the regular admission standards of intelligence, for after 1964 the special fund will be exhausted and regular college scholarship grants will be used to continue support for students who entered with aid from this two year plan...
...five days behind closed doors, the World Council's executive committee warmly debated "a reply to the Pope." It turned out to be a cautious document, expressing interest in the proposed meeting but stressing lack of information. "The question is how ecumenical will the council be in composition and in spirit?" The committee advanced its own version of ecumenical cooperation: "Progress toward unity is made when churches meet together on the basis of mutual respect and with a full commitment on the part of each church to the truth of the Gospel, to charity and to a faithful interpretation...
...nearest thing to regimentation in a private company. Says one employee: "When you join the telephone company, your whole life changes." A. T. & T. drills "duty" and "service" into its employees; it inundates them with dozens of handbooks of instruction. They tell employees what to do to meet almost every conceivable problem, from flying a task force of linemen into a hurricane-devastated area to giving instructions for saving a choking baby. Says an employee: "The company doesn't leave anything to chance...
...Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as "the World-that which needs my existence to save it at whatever cost to myself. He comes into collision with the real world but insists upon continuing to suffer [and] never despairs." When readers first meet Don Quixote, continues Auden, "he is (a) poor (b) not a knight, (c) 50, (d) has nothing to do except hunt and read romances about Knight-Errantry . . . Suddenly he goes mad, i.e., he sets out to become what he admires . . . Religiously, it is a conversion, an act of faith, a taking...
Without some such mental preamble, the saga of Eugene Henderson, the quixotic hero of Saul (The Adventures of Augie March) Bellow's new novel, is apt to seem little more than the portrait of one of nature's fall guys, a well-heeled goof. When readers first meet Henderson, he is (a) rich, (b) not a knight, (c) 55, (d) has nothing to do except raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family...