Word: seers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the talk of literary Germany was a Darmstadt professor's painstakingly documented debunking of that myth. The crude myth of the racist Nietzsche, argued Professor Karl Schlechta in his new edition of the seer's works, was the consciously perpetrated fraud of his sister, guardian and sole literary executrix, the late Frau Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche...
...figure of ten percent is roughly the proportion of Radcliffe students to Harvard students, and if joint building is maintained on this basis, Radcliffe can be expected to contribute nearly $100,000 towards the new theatre. The Over-seer's Visual Arts Committee set a figure of $1,000,000 as the cost for such a building...
...ended with an almost even split between the two parties (including the Democrats' gubernatorial victory in Maine in September). In some states, the out come was baffling enough to send a stream of crystal balls hurtling into the political junkpile-there to be joined by many a bewildered seer. Items...
...were the Yankees overloaded with apple-cheeked youth. Without Manager Charles Dillon Stengel, a swivel-tongued seer of 65, the Yankees would be just another ball club. Then there was Outfielder Hank Bauer, a hardened old pro at 34, and a veteran of six series. Catcher Yogi Berra was only 31, but already a squat relic of more series (seven) than any other player on either team. There was also a durable outfielder of 40 summers named Enos Bradsher Slaughter. Back in mid-August, old Case Stengel had squinted into the future and decided that once his Yanks...
After last July's Texas Democratic primary election, there was hardly a political seer in the state who did not see the doors of the governor's mansion in Austin swinging wide open for quiet, conservative U.S. Senator Price Daniel. Home from Washington to run for the job he had always wanted, he easily outdistanced five other hopefuls, led his nearest opponent, oft-defeated Austin Attorney Ralph Yarborough, by 165,000 (TIME, Aug. 6). But Daniel did not get a majority of the votes, was forced into a runoff primary with Yarborough, and that was a different story...