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...corps of pretty hostesses to aid incoming passengers, 2) a Customs Academy, which would eventually turn out inspectors so expert in snap judgment that they could simply glance at a woman's face and know whether her spiked heels were full of contraband. As it is, the simplified "oral declarations" remain a pie-in-the-sky practice except for air arrivals at Miami and Idlewild. As for New York's outmoded docks, Nichols concludes, "I can't see anything happening in the next five years that will be better than an aspirin for a man with cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Temporary Relief | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...enriching the spiritual life of Europe with his versatile gifts for more than half a century." Buber is one of the master stylists of modern German prose, and his German translation of the Old Testament is one of history's most successful efforts to re-create the oral quality and poetry of the Hebrew Bible in another language. In his novels and folk tales, he has been responsible for re-creating the legend and lore of the Hasidim-the sect of joyfully pious Jews who flourished in the ghettos of Eastern Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: l-Thou & l-lt | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...each author brought the spirit of his own age into his presentation of the figure of Jesus." For another, such turn-of-the-century theologians as Johannes Weiss and Wilhelm Wrede proved conclusively that the Gospels were not simple historical accounts but highly sophisticated theological works in which the oral tradition preserved by Christ's early disciples was considerably expanded. This oral tradition consisted almost exclusively of Jesus' sayings; thus his actions as recounted in the Gospels, and the geographical circumstances of his words-for example, the mountain of the Sermon on the Mount-were almost certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: The New Search for The Historical Jesus | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

German A was criticized, for example, because it does not give a "coherent presentation of grammar." The report says that "the aural-oral method should be used side-by-side" with a more suitable and rigorous text than the current grammar employed by the course...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: HCUA Committee Raps Instruction of Language | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...evidence of the success of the German A aural-oral approach, Spaethling cited the results of proficiency tests given to first-year students last week. In the standard college-board achievement test designed for students with at least two years of German, 60 per cent of German A passed with a score of 560 or above. In a similar Harvard College proficiency test, 45 per cent passed the exam...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: HCUA Committee Raps Instruction of Language | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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