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...another elected ex-dictator. It was a moment for the U.S. people in general, and the State Department in particular, to face a distasteful fact: with these changes, all the South American republics except Uruguay will be governed by dictators or ex-dictators. Some of the governments still profess to be well disposed toward the U.S. and its ideas of democracy. But it is painfully clear that those ideas are on the defensive -and losing ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Losing Ground | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...record was held briefly in 1852 by the Baltic, 2,664-ton sidewheeler which averaged 13 knots. Cunarders profess they are unconcerned by the new threat. Sniffed Cunard Chairman Fred Bates: "Speed for the sake of speed has not entered into our reckoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Invasion, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...annual conference of Britain's Library Association, Author-Theologian C. S. Lewis hada few words to say about the old controversy of fairy tales v. "realistic" stories: "What profess to be realistic stories for children are likely to deceive them. I never expected the real world to be like the fairy tales. I think I did expect school to be like the school stories. The fantasies did not deceive me. The school stories did . . . Some people contend that we must try to keep out of a child's mind the knowledge that he is born into a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...Perhaps the greatest single change that one could hope for in the immediate future," he said, "would be a burying of the hatchet between the professors of liberal arts colleges and so-called professional educators. The two feuding parties," he continued, "have been on the one hand those who profess a knowledge of subjects, and on the other those who profess a knowledge of education, or are teaching in our public schools...

Author: By Richard D. Kaplan, | Title: School of Education Launches New Program; University Educators Cease Sixty - Year Feud | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

...overdose of professional guidance services can lead to a specialization in which the faculty feels less responsibility for the students as people, leaving the emotional and personal areas to those who profess to be trained to deal with them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bureau of Study Counsel Provides Tips in Exam Writing, Class Work | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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