Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Hall Paxton, 52, American consul at Isfahan, Iran, who in 1949 led a group of men, women & children in an epic, ten-week, 2,500-mile escape from Chinese Communists into India; of a coronary thrombosis, in Isfahan. Old China Hand Paxton, brought up in the Orient by missionary parents, was U.S. consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths...
...came back to the U.S. in 1948, married a telephone company executive named Loren B. Thompson, whom she had met when he served as a colonel of infantry in the Orient, and settled down as a housewife in East Orange, N.J. But she remained a super-active member of the Army's organized reserve, was often called upon to brief Army units heading for the Far East. Then this spring, she was summarily discharged from the reserves. Reason: she had a baby, thus making herself ineligible under postwar regulations which ban mothers of children under 18 from the service...
Feverish note-taking is lacking, as is the idea of the instructor preaching a gospel. Professors employ largely the "key sentence" technique of drawing generalizations from specific reading material. They orient their classes to "social implications" by exemplifying cases of tension and conflict and then demonstrating the effects of that conflict on morality. This subtle system, overwhelming when it works, sometimes leads to a carelessness is dong assignments and gaining purely empirical knowledge...
...Yugoslavs tried to flee to Paris via the Orient Express. Carrying bread, jugs of water, and pills to stifle coughing, they sealed themselves in the metal battery boxes slung under the cars of the once-famed luxury train, but were caught by frontier guards near Trieste. The government charged that the fugitives were members of a subversive, anti-Tito movement, but in court last week the defendants denied it. Said one, a 21-year-old blonde: she wanted to go to Paris because she was in love with a student who always traveled the battery-box route. Said another...
These differences are changing even now. In recent centuries, the Orient has stressed dependance and detachment more than the Occident, but now the East has taken possession of the power techniques of the West, and is adopting much of Western ideology...