Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amsterdam, he found his opponents well aware of two dimensions-"the contrasts of good and evil, freedom and necessity, love and self-centredness, spirit and matter, person and mechanism, progress and stagnation-and in this sense, God and the world or God and man. Who would deny that these are important categories? I am not unaware that . . . within this framework . . . [is] more profound thinking . . . than there was a decade...
...post-graduate stipend will be $1,200 for a single person or $1,800 to a married person, together with an award of $1,000 to the University. The second fellowship provides $3,000 for the recipient and a grant of $1,500 to the University...
...Communists who run his country. Communist Boss Rakosi had tried every trick in the trade-from threatening to confiscate the church's property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press-to shut him up, but up to Christmastide not even Rakosi dared to touch the Cardinal's person. Last month he clapped Mindszenty's private secretary into jail for "treason." This week, under pressure from Moscow and presumably armed with a full "confession" from the secretary, Rakosi arrested Hungary's Primate for "treason, espionage and dealings in the black market...
Last week, tall, ruddy Clarinetist Reginald Kell, recognized as one of the world's best, let Manhattan judge his respectability in person for the first time. Snowbound in the suburbs, he stomped in the stage door just ten minutes before he was scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate...
...world no longer throws its mentally sick into snake pits, on the theory, once widely held, that an experience which might drive a sane person out of his mind might drive an insane one back into it. But snake pits still exist. The Shame of the States, a recently published, chillingly factual report on conditions in state mental hospitals (see MEDICINE), reveals horrors in the midst of the world's wealthiest, healthiest country which many Americans may refuse to believe. The large, hidden population of the mentally ill lives amid squalor, dirt and creeping fear, in the solitary confinement...