Word: sectionalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other country in the world, even Hitler's Germany, thought be less free, more bowed down, more fearful, more vassalized." The faithful, who had seen Gide treated like a hero, were now instructed to regard him as vermin. Soviet Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, who had led the cheering section for Gide, now denounced him as a "wicked...
...last section of the book, utilizing incidents and characters already reported by the author in My Lives in Russia, bites more deeply into reality than the rest. Mrs. Fischer has realized the human meaning of separation and terror. But to dramatize humanity against inhumanity, while it may be the best possible counter propaganda for the present age, is not necessarily...
...lecture system is particularly weak when unaccompanied by other elements designed to unify the individual's education and to bring him into closer contact with the faculty. Further experiments with small section groups might lead to a partial fulfillment of this requirement, but the key to the problem, which is perhaps the most dangerous within the educational picture of Harvard today, still lies in tutorial...
Financial considerations are always important in idealistic educational plans. To give group tutorial to all the men in a field, however, would probably cost no more than to tutor the honors candidates individually. To use conference groups half the size of the section metings of today would undoubtedly add temporary faculty members--and salaries --to the staff, but part of this expense might be equated by savings gained by dropping examinations...
...hulking (230 lbs.) Rufus Stanley Woodward, sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune, was called on the carpet. When he left the office of Managing Editor George Cornish, Woodward was out of a job (after 18 years on the Trib). Woodward had made the Trib's sports section one of the best in the U.S., but he had asked for trouble. He had criticized the firing or forced retirement of several staffers. And when the management asked what two men he could fire for economy, he had sarcastically suggested: "Columnist Red Smith...