Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flourish of ceremony and sentiment, Britain's 41st Parliament-last week held its final session. Wigged and white-ruffled, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod summoned M.P.s to hear Queen Elizabeth's dissolution speech. Less than an hour later, the Queen's writs went out to 630 parliamentary constituencies, and Britain's 1959 election campaign was officially under...
...Teamsters), the arrogance of Labor Boss James Carey in threatening political retaliation to House members who voted for the Landrum-Griffin bill, and the steelworkers' ability to push wages up at twice the rate of productivity gains are the most explicit reasons why there is so-called "antiunion" sentiment (in reality, "antilabor boss" sentiment) in the nation-in and out of Congress...
Religious questioning actually leads, as many ministers point out, to a type of humanism--Christian sentiment not necessarily entailing belief in God or organized religion. This feeling, most evident among those who attend church infrequently, results from the leaven of the pragmatic, liberal Harvard education intensifying pre-existent doubts. Doubting, for 55 per cent of Harvard Protestants, started in secondary school. Under the influence of the College atmosphere doubting grows into agnosticism or into humanism. "I personally feel this humanism is much better than drabby churchiosity," a very prominent minister commented...
While the King and queen besought their faithful subjects to remain calm, Cambodian security police began an investigation, soon announced that the card from the U.S. firm was fraudulent and a "crude attempt" to stir up anti-American sentiment. Who was guilty of the outrage? Observers pointed out that neutralist Cambodia's relations with its pro-Western neighbors, South Viet Nam and Thailand, were on the mend after several years of tension (TIME, March 16). Only one group stood to gain from chaos in Cambodia: the Communists...
...meet the requirements of both sound practice and parental desire, more and more schools are adding one loophole to the hard-and-fast age rule: examination of borderline cases by a competent child psychologist. A survey last year by the National Education Association disclosed widespread sentiment for the idea, already in use in about 15% of U.S. school systems. "Testing the child and counseling the parent," predicted one school principal, "will some day replace age as the criteria." Last week in Cherry Creek, a well-to-do suburb of Denver, Superintendent Robert Higday Shreve countered the general acceptance of definite...