Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Audience has more to offer when its column-tenants stick to their own experience. The poetry is generally original, in the spirit of experiment. Arthur Freeman metaphorizes Samuel Johnson's sensitive mind into a trailer-truck, a diesel, and a Pershing tank, in what is probably the volume's best poem. And Nathaniel Lamar's short verse on "A Dry Anthropologist at Sea" sent Lowell House contemporary culturists to chuckling in their...
...basis of equality and confidence-a program that should steal thunder from the supporters of Moscow and Cairo. Ahidjo also is expected to try to lure the rebels out of the jungle with the promise that they will suffer no punishment if they surrender-the kind of offer M'bida had refused to make...
...things did not stop there. A strange transformation had come over the boys and girls of Glenridge-they actually began asking why they should not have classes on Saturday. With the approval of broad-minded Principal Adrian Stockard, Ansley decided to offer two Saturday courses in philosophy, to run 15 weeks. Those who took them would get no academic credit, would even have to pay $15 for the privilege of getting out of bed just as on any school day. Nonetheless, 17 signed up for the three-hour morning course in the history of philosophy, 26 more for logic...
...Nondas who has eyes only for Erne. Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia. Monarches loves his wife Julia who leaves him for a nameless lover for whom she has waited for 15 years. Danae loves Simos who is too poor to offer marriage but can pay for an abortion. Sentimental Vivi is perhaps poorest of all-in love with the 2,000 records of the Light Music Department...
Judaism has much to offer the Gentiles of today, says Dr. Gordis, member of a Conservative congregation, in the current National Jewish Monthly. Jewish emphasis on family life would be a firm foundation in "the contemporary quagmire of sex and family relations." Jewish internationalism would be a potent palliative for the excesses of nationalism. And many a non-Jew would welcome Judaism's "uncompromising insistence . . . upon the unity of God, its realistic yet hopeful view of the nature of man, its refusal to accept a dichotomy between body and spirit, its de-emphasis of miracle and dogma, its optimistic...