Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion & Racism Sir' In alleging that Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers advocate the practice of brother hood as a consequence of having been "brain washed by left-wingers and Communists" [TIME, Sept. 29], Governor Faubus pays the Communists an unnecessary and unmerited compliment. The Communists do seem to know more about brotherhood than Faubus does, so he could, with profit, go to school with them. But the idea of the brotherhood of all men derives rather from certain Old! Testament writers, the Stoic philosophers, or Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
...conservative-owned papers into the hands of left-wing staffers, who have so discredited Premier Kishi that last month he made the face-losing appeal: "Is it all that bad-is there nothing good?" To many readers, Japan's industrious, irresponsible press has made it all seem that bad. Says one student: "We learn from the press that the conservatives are thinly disguised reactionaries and the socialists are weak and ineffectual. Perhaps the Communists are really the only people who have something...
Despite the lack of a regular lightweight coach, training of both experienced and inexperienced squads is apparently going satisfactorily, the freshman coaches concur. Because of the low salary offered a lightweight coach, some members of the freshman staff seem to feel that volunteer graduate coaches may offer the only practical solution to the problem of training lightweight crews...
Their attitude toward politics is also affected. American students do not engage in political activities because these seem divorced from campus life; in Nigeria there is a similar lack of activity but it is because politics is so integrally related to campus and career. Several university students state that they did not want to endanger their scholarship standing by being vocal supporters of any one political party. Moreover, federal and regional scholarship terms commit them to five years' employment in a government department after graduation, and incipient civil servants are wise to avoid entangling alliances with parties. They are expected...
...pleases, whether he be right or wrong, and in the majority or a minority, so long as others have the same right. The resulting interplay can create still better views. This principle allows every faith to flourish for whatever it is worth; and no faith ought to swallow or seem to threaten to swallow the public hand that has sheltered...