Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China, wrote in the Illustrated Weekly of India: "It will be a sad day for Asia if, after a struggle for two centuries, she overthrows European imperialism only to become victim of another and more sinister imperialism." And in Parliament's first chance to debate the Tibetan question, Nehru was bluntly asked to "face reality" and re-examine the aims of Red China...
What do you know about Hitler? Pointing his movie camera into dozens of high school classrooms, Frankfurt TV Reporter Jiirgen Neven-DuMont put his question to scores of German students aged 15 to 17. Telecast last week, their answers displayed a surprising ignorance of Nazi turpitude. In fact, nine out of every ten students either knew nothing at all about Adolf Hitler or thought that he had accomplished more good than harm. Sample replies...
...Berlin? The question agitates the free world, and last week an NBC news team headed by Commentator Chet Huntley addressed itself to the difficult task of supplying an answer. Their reply, presented in prime evening time (8 o'clock, E.S.T.), was television journalism at its best-the sights and sounds and sad, bitter memories of a divided city, caught by an accident of history far on the wrong side of the Communist border...
...frame: the generally Republican Inquirer used it again, this time to illustrate an editorial of full-blown praise for Lawrence. "Head bowed in thought," said the Inquirer, "hands lifted in almost prayerful meditation or reaching out to emphasize some point, eyes half closed as he ponders a question, the Governor is revealed as a man under great stress-and as a man who is determinedly thinking his way through." Thus made to appear as a statesman instead of a pol, Pennsylvania's Lawrence sought out Photographer Vathis. "Accept my humblest apologies, Paul." he said. "I was wrong...
Last week four experts grappled with the question in a new Fund for the Republic report. Religion and the Schools. What emerged was a topflight summary of familiar views, and a sharp breach among the experts. Against aid for parochial schools: the one agnostic, Economics Professor Robert Lekachman of Barnard College, and Rabbi Robert Gordis of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. For aid: Catholic Layman William Gorman, onetime associate director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, and the Rev. Dr. F. Ernest Johnson of the (Protestant) National Council of Churches of Christ...