Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabs were thinking less of trying to conquer the Jewish enemy than of defending their own parts of Palestine. Both sides were willing, for the moment at least, to keep Jerusalem off the list of battlefields. British High Commissioner General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham won Arab and Jewish acceptance of a ceasefire order for the city. To back it up, the British moved in heavy tanks and guns...
...General Education program has been envisaged as a solution to this very problem. It is intended to provide students with a "common core of knowledge." Whether or not the program will eventually achieve this end is a moot issue at the moment, one that will be resolved only if and when the program becomes compulsory and is characterized by more of the suggestions made in the original Report. In the meantime, the undiscriminating methods of the lecture-books-examination system will continue in force, leaving undergraduates to their own varied, and in many cases, inadequate devices...
...indulge in the highly personal for the moment, I was particularly struck by two of the three poems contributed by Seymour Lawrence (the chief editorial hand behind "Wake")--the ones entitled "City Nun" and "A Love Song." I also might mention that I found a little piece of wit, charm, and whimsey by E.E. Cummings called "A Little Girl Named I" the most entertaining thing in the entire magazine. It is lonely in its modernistie company: but it is wonderful...
...painting received more attention than all the others put together. It was a frothy bit by pink-cheeked, prosperous Jean-Gabriel Domergue. France's fashionable painter of the moment, Domergue has created a type of nude (tall, slim, boyish, with tiny, upturned breasts) that is as stylized as the Petty girl...
...scorns the 19th Century and its romantics-Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner-and latter-day romantics like Richard Strauss. He once insisted, in a heated moment, that "Music is powerless to express anything whatsoever." As for writing like a romantic, he says: "I cannot appeal to you as a person with my music; it would embarrass...