Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 1000 delegates from colleges and secondary chools met in Boston to discuss college admissions, science teaching and the challenge of Russian education. Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction at Radcliffe, presided...
...Neighborhood schools," he adds, "are better than they are given credit for by the Cambridge climate of opinion. There are two ways in which the problem of the school problem can be met. By giving up--moving to Arlington, or by staying to fight. The schools here are good, and they can be tremendously improved through parent-teacher associations and political action...
...firing is successful, the United States will have met Nikita Khrushchev's challenge to the free world to join Russia in forming a "commonwealth of Sputniks...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952), author on art and archaeology (The Taste of Angels, Fifty Centuries of Art); of complications after a kidney operation; in Worcester, Mass. Harddriving, high-strung ("I don't relax, I just collapse") nail-biting Scholar-Showman Taylor retired from the Met because his self-imposed burdens "so taxed my nervous and physical energies," but in his 15-year reign, he doubled the museum's endowment (more than $62 million in 1954), doubled its annual attendance (over 2,500,000) and tripled its membership...
...satanic determination to undergo what he called "a long, immense and deliberate derangement of all the senses . . . seeking every possible experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with sharp cries of "Merde!" One day he denounced a critic as an "excreter of ink." The critic took prompt revenge by noting that, at a subsequent first night, among those present was "the saturnine poet Paul Verlaine who gave his arm to a charming young person named Miss Rimbaud...