Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious to Historian Max Beloff, who teaches modern history at Oxford, that U.S. education was ahead on one count: more people, were getting to college than ever before. Could postwar Britain, which talked of doing the same, learn anything from U.S. experience...
...easy" and with teaching only "interesting" subjects. Thus "the years of life when memory is at its most active . . . are largely wasted, and a great deal of what could profitably be done at school is left to be done in college . . . One obvious example of this is in languages ... Modern languages in America are in danger of following the dead languages into total neglect...
...Communism is our most powerful enemy. It is the strongest modern expression of a social idea-we must fight it but treat it with respect. We must study it well, deeply, and in all details so as to combat it, not with arms and force which are means of ephemeral victory, but by showing the masses-to whom we promise happiness in heaven while Marx promises happiness in mortal life-that long before Marx, St. Paul taught social justice, and that we can and must now put our theories into practice...
...Lisbon's small and elegant Hotel Aviz, where most globe-trotters halt for a quick refresher, one wall is covered with the exploits of Diaz, Da Gama, Magellan and other great Portuguese explorers. On the opposite wall, a plaque pays tribute to the foremost explorer of the modern world of the air-Juan Terry Trippe. The plaque commemorates the rediscovery of the old world by the new: the first passenger flight of Trippe and his Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper from the U.S. to Lisbon on June...
Liberal Union members sent Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovitch a telegram yesterday inviting him to speak in Cambridge on "Trends in Modern Music," Herbert S. Levine '50, HLU president, announced last night...