Word: public
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MacLeish plans to compare Dickinson's poetic achievements to those of Yeats, Rousseau, and Keats in the remaining four lectures of his current series, "Poetry and Experience." He will attempt to establish that Dickinson's world is the private world, Yeat's the public, Rousseau's the artistic, and Keats's the arable...
...research, not to popularization; it is a center, and not a coordinating agency for team projects. Although members of the staff--particularly Professor Merle Fainsod, the current director--are frequently requested by journalists to comment upon Soviet events, they regard the Center's function not as communication with public or press, but as contribution to scholarly knowledge of Russian society, government, economy and history. Marshall D. Shulman, associate director of the Center, notes with justifiable pride that each volume in the Russian Research Center series published by the Harvard University Press represents a solid, thoughtful piece of scholarship...
...delegates representing their views, but a federation of delegates from student governments. The pronouncements and resolutions of the NSA convention are presented as those of the participating schools, although there does exist provision for an objecting school to disassociate itself. At the same time it offers itself to the public as representing all the students. This role is demonstrated by its actions and votes at international conferences of students where its masquerade as the voice of American students finds ready acceptance, notwithstanding the occasional verbal denial of such a role by officers...
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. U.S. foreign policy troubles, the author argues in this perspective study, are largely the result of the nation's lack of a coherent public philosophy...
...pledge, suggested by President A. Whitney Griswold, is similar to the non-discrimination requirement which PBH instituted last fall for its public housing lists. Both Yale and PBH prohibit discrimination on basis of race, creed, or color...