Word: momental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting on something," and at present its organization is "rather relaxed." Some members are working for the Vienna Youth Festival Information Service "to give us something to do," said Prescott Evarts '60, president. Perhaps if another revolution occurs in the satellites the council can recapture its former moment of glory...
...moment, ETS is perfectly capable of absorbing the loss with profits from its regular College Boards, but as the Advanced Placement program grows in size, such support will become financially impossible. The money must come from some other source; either students or schools or colleges must take over the economic burden...
...Washington I'm pretty much exploring my way at the moment. For the first eighteen months of the work under the grant, I'll probably be concerned with knitting together Western assistance to India." India has just had two poorly organized five-year plans, she explains, and is about to develop a third. "There is no reason why a Marshall Plan Commission couldn't be set up to help the next plan," she says, and thereby help develop a better organized and potentially more successful program. "As neighbors, this is what we ought to do--not wait until there...
...approaching a masterpiece, show simple courtesy, suggests Author Eliot: let the painting speak first. This demands "a kind of reverence, a still gratitude, but definitely not admiration. The moment one stops to say. 'Isn't that lovely!' one is in danger of losing the way." Beauty's shadow is significance: "Every great painting shows something seen plus something seen into . . . sight and insight." If the surface story is only half the story in a painting, the "latent content" is the other half, the question the artist answered without consciously asking...
...profoundest level is a school for heroes, what is the hero's role? He is the touchstone of man's fate, argues Eliot. "We know our fate is of each moment, we know it is eternal, and we know what it is. Ever since classical times we have known what man's fate is. We have known it in our hearts and we have acted upon it. Man's fate is to be free...