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Full Conscience. It is not that simple, suggested Catholic Layman William Gorman. In his view, there is a good case for an "adjustment" in aid if nothing else. Gorman's reasoning is that parents in a free society have a prior right in the education of children, who are merely on loan to the school as surrogate. Though society guarantees that the school may be of any persuasion, if it meets public standards, Catholics are penalized for exercising this guarantee. "It is radically unjust and in violation of the abiding spirit of constitutional government," wrote Gorman, "to allow...
THREE years ago Harris Prior, director of The American Federation of Arts, was looking for a major show to mark the A.F.A.'s 50th anniversary celebration in 1959. Reading TIME'S cover story on Eero Saarinen (July 2, 1956), he noticed a box headed "The 20th Century Form Givers," was struck by the possibilities of making it the theme of a comprehensive and definitive exhibition of 20th century architecture. Prior went to TIME, asked it to tap its research and picture resources to assemble the show. Organized by Associate Editor Cranston Jones, who has won two American Institute...
...Prior to the meeting, two CEP members showed conflicting attitudes towards proposals that tutorials or seminars be given in the Freshman year. Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English, viewed the proposals with skepticism. Citing the "gigantic cost" of House tutorials, he called the suggested Freshman innovations "largely academic." The present work overload on the staffs of popular departments such as English, he claimed, would also make extension of tutorial to Freshmen very difficult...
...round in his battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission when it rescinded the ban on trading in Bon Ami, a Guterma company." The [trading ban] was removed on the petition of this company [which emphasized that] the present management has no association whatsoever with members of prior management, including Alexander Guterma...
...somehow got the impression that your reviewer would have preferred a more "modern" locale for the story-perhaps Cuba just prior to the collapse of the Batista regime. I can just see the mountainside love scene. Jordan (Errol Flynn would be perfect in the role) leers at Maria and wheezes: "Baby, this really swings...