Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature of that pattern, ambiguous though it is, is perhaps best seen by looking at what Harvard demands of its students, for Harvard's only working definition to "a liberal education" is found in the requirements which are imposed upon its students...
France's President René Coty, a schoolmaster's son from Normandy, is often seen but seldom heard. Unannounced and unexpected, Coty took to the radio in an unprecedented midnight broadcast from Paris. His voice shook with emotion as he said: "There is no Frenchman in all the world, there is not a man with a heart who was not overcome with pity and horror in learning of the massive atrocities. These abominations are not only the act of a few bandits. The killers continue to execute the orders of their chiefs, of the same chiefs who, only...
...died within a fortnight. Thus, last week, reported California Surgeon John T. McLaughlin, an industrial medical consultant. There were no marks on the victim's body, but "his insides were cooked ... A hole as big as a silver dollar was burned in his small bowel." Dr. McLaughlin has seen other, less severe cases, warns that high-powered radar microwaves (similar to those used in electronic stoves) can do serious damage at short range without proper safeguards by causing "intolerable" rises in tissue temperatures...
Britain's good grey BBC, stiffly challenged by commercial TV, has been denying for months that it plans to cater to anything so vulgar as popular taste. Its critics have seen the taint of the common touch in the BBC's decision to accent TV while lopping two hours daily off the five-hour highbrow Third Program. But last week they could take heart in a new appointment. As chairman of its board of governors with complete control over all radio and TV programs, the BBC named Rugby Headmaster Sir Arthur fforde, 56, who does...
...Doll and has directed three of Tennessee Williams' plays. Unhappily Kazan does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." She also described Kazan's method: "Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;/ The rage, but not the talent, to abuse...