Word: minds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Defense Secretary McElroy, at his own news conference, laid down a few of the specifics of what he and the President had in mind. The Communists, said McElroy, could hardly mount an attack of the size needed to destroy the U.S. without preparations that would be detectable by the U.S. Such a huge build up would require 1) heavy communications traffic, such as for readying hundreds of missile countdowns, 2) heavy forces movements which might not go undetected. Duration of such a buildup might be four or five days. And if such a buildup were reported...
...With a mind to the comfort of his country's barristers, Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana called for an end to a solemn heritage of British common law: the traditional curled lawyer's wig. Scoffed Nkrumah: "ridiculous headgear," considering Ghana's sweltering climate...
...present-a book entitled Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich (Harper; $7.50), whose 25 contributors include such groundbreakers as Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Philosopher Karl Jaspers. Theologians Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niebuhr. Even Roman Catholic theologians are recognizing Tillich as the most challenging Protestant mind of his time. "The sustained brilliance of Tillich is amazing," writes U.S. Theologian Gustave Weigel, a Jesuit, "and his incredibly wide knowledge matches his brilliance. Any witness of the Protestant reality looks for someone to give a unified meaning to the whole thing. I believe that I have found that...
Final Niche. Some of her pronouncements are moved by heartfelt ache over the fate of children in divorces (she is writing a novel about them entitled Hollywood Be Thy Name). Others seem to be just a piece-of-mind psychologizing. Last year she went on the air with a Los Angeles TV show called Ad Lib. To the fearful joy of sponsors, Pamela lambasted monogamy as "unnatural," defended premarital sex relations because "it's absurd to stop just when you're most interested," and called for legalization of homosexuality because "it's nobody's business what...
...with widespread interests. Not all A. P. students get advancement in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics; some get it in Mathematics, American History, and French. Thus, a boy with enough interest in widely separated areas to take stiff, advanced classes in all of them must almost immediately make up his mind to forsake two of them. One of the greatest benefits of Freshman year is that it can give an opportunity to consider the problem of devoting one's self to a single area...