Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eyes Forward. The future, not the past or even the present, is where British Columbia sets its sights. Last year Premier Bennett announced that his government proposed to license Sweden's Multimillionaire Axel Wenner-Gren (TIME, Oct. 21, 1957) to build a $400 million-to-$600 million hydroelectric project on the Peace River, wire the electricity 600 miles to Vancouver. Wenner-Gren would also study the possibility of building pulp and paper mills, mines and smelters in the undeveloped northland. Since then, Wenner-Gren has spent an estimated $10 million surveying possible dam sites, prospecting for minerals...
...past years, and the average college must hustle to keep up with the change. The report, They Come for the Best of Reasons, written by Columbia University Professor W. Max Wise for a panel of educators sponsored by the American Council on Education, sifts views and statistics on the present college generation. Highlights...
...Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...
Since 1936, when Scots-born Dr. Mackay took over the presidency of Princeton Seminary, enrollment has doubled to its present 487 students (from 40 states, 20 foreign countries, some 50 different denominations). In one respect at least. President-elect McCord promises to be like his predecessor: he is an outspoken man. Dr. Mackay, who spent nearly 20 years as a minister and teacher in Latin America, has the combative stance of a Presbyterian caught in a crowd of Roman Catholics, has campaigned vigorously against persecution of Protestants in Catholic Spain, against the dangers of religious syncretism within Protestantism...
...period-piece reproduction, Suzie Wong comes in the original raspberry plush, with every dusty, looped inanity. every faded, tasseled cliche in place. Joshua Logan's staging nowhere intrudes a jarring present-day touch. Though the swarming street and cafe passages have hurly, and sometimes burly too, the more intimate scenes are all played largo, with silences like swelling organ notes, stares into space that pulse with tension, and pauses aquiver with heartbreak...