Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nathan Pusey's baccalaureate address last week with more attention than is usually accorded to a college president on such a day. Reason: Pusey was talking religion, and these days religious questions are sweeping the Cambridge campus with what Pusey himself called cyclone force. The controversy reached a peak over the issue of whether Memorial Church, dedicated to the memory of Harvard's dead in World Wars I and II, should be used for non-Christian marriage and funeral ceremonies (TIME...
Among the most popular paintings in the show are the works of two Milanese artists who reached their peak at the beginning of the 16th century (see color page), Bernardino Butinone (active 1454-1507) and Ambrogio Fossano, known as "Il Borgognone" (circa 1450-1523). Butinone tried to combine the perspective of Florence with the mastery of light developed by the artists of Bruges. His The Last Judgment almost overcrowds the canvas with drama: the archangel is dividing the damned from the saved (including a Pope) in the foreground, while Christ sits on high in judgment, flanked by the Apostles...
When Russia sent the first man-made earth satellite into orbit last October, said Mahon during debate on the $38 billion defense appropriation, "we became aroused, humiliated, angry, frustrated and determined. Now the anger has cooled and the determination has been blunted." From a "peak of awareness and urgency," the U.S. has backslid to ''the humdrum plane of complacency." And complacency is dangerous. "The Soviet threat to our pre-eminence in industry, science and military striking power is steadily increasing. We have long been accustomed to think of the U.S. as occupying an unchallenged and unchallengeable position...
...themselves to death at a faster rate than ever. Dr. Guy Godlewski, a Paris hormone specialist, told the French Academy of Medicine last week that after wartime's austerity, the number of deaths from cirrhosis of the liver quadrupled from 1947 to 1950, tripled again by 1956. The peak total that year: 20,279 deaths from alcoholism, 14-176 of them from cirrhosis. Cause of the trouble is not hard liquor, said Dr. Godlewski, which most Frenchmen use sparingly, but ordinary red wine, or le gros rouge. Alcoholism is not the only contributing cause of cirrhosis...
...reminders of the admission hurdles which lie ahead. Teachers not infrequently employ the threat to mark infractions on a student's "college record" as a disciplinary persuader. Gradually through a student's four years the pressure of getting into a choice school builds up until it reaches a peak of tension in the winter and spring of his senior year. There seems to be, in general, too much of a stress laid on achieving college admission as the "be-all and end-all." Although the rivalry to enter a good school necessitates some atmosphere of competition, the tendency on both...