Word: pursuits
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Crozier's praise for American schooling was questioned by both Peyre and Bereday. Bereday pointed that the French concentrated "on the cultivation of the mind, the pursuit of reason" while American education strives primarily to stimulate individual growth. "Americans are less concerned with what the growth should be than that it should at least take place," he said
Sister Formation believes that nuns should take a wider and more active mission role in the world. Thus nuns majoring in sociology at Marillac spend long hours in St. Louis courts learning how the law operates, and those at Mundelein study civil rights and the psychology of poverty. In pursuit of higher education, nuns sometimes exchange their habits for dresses (as did the Columbia student who toured Russia) or get ecclesiastical permission to study writers, such as Sartre and Gide, whose works are on Rome's Index of Forbidden Books. And when nuns go on to graduate school, says...
...last night while he was mouthing such nothings. Not one specific issue or controversy was mentioned in the Senator's speech. It was obvious, however, that his supporters were thinking of specifics when they gave the largest cheer of the evening to Goldwater's pronouncement that "extremism in the pursuit of freedom is not necessarily a vice...
...With God's help, I hope Americans will accept their moral responsibility by doing what they can to make life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness a reality for Negro people as well as white...
Thousands packed the Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin shores, and more than 100 small boats followed in pursuit, as three contenders puffed along in the first commercial riverboat race on the upper Mississippi in modern times, a six-mile feature of the Dubuque summer festival. The tug Coal Queen took an early lead, but the Mary soon pulled ahead, leaving the excursion liner Julie N. Dubuque II to finish third. Owner of the Coal Queen was Iowa's poet of the pajama game, Author-Playwright Richard Bissell, 51, a Harvardman you can always tell will go along gamely with whatever...