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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharp Answers. But Nikita Khrushchev was gaining understanding of a sort. He threw himself into his answers; he never faltered in setting down the Soviet line. He demonstrated clearly that he is no clown, although he knew how to draw a laugh when he wanted one. He stumbled-perhaps artfully-half a dozen times. Once he apologized for accidentally calling U.S. newsmen "comrades," once referred to the tenth anniversary of the revolution in "America" when he meant China. When he was asked about his celebrated "We will bury you" gibe at the U.S., Khrushchev explained calmly that capitalism was doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Elemental Force | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...must, at the outset, deny that a "religious renascence" is an adequate term for the religious interests of students at Harvard. One must first look askance at the word "religious," which implies some sort of mixture of faith and ritualistic practice. While attendance at Memorial Church has multiplied many fold since the arrival of the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, such has not been the case with other churches in the vicinity, which have been garnering about the same number of worshippers for many years. The new popularity of Mem Church is generally ascribed to the stimulating...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...This sort of pantheistic, almost Tillichian deity, leaves opportunity for one to think and do whatever he wishes in respect to God. For if nothing can be affirmed about Him, everything may be said of Him, as Tillich notes, and everything one says will have symbolic truth. It requires, of course, an extremely sensitive and intense mind to immerse oneself so thoroughly in the aspect of God one chooses that one may understand Him and render Him meaningful in one's existence...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Beyond Tradition: Students Leave Orthodoxy In Eclectic Search for Meaningful Religion | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Without experience it is impossible to know how centralized or how autonomous the program should be, how specialized or how general the individual workshops. Experiment is a necessity in this sort of venture. What has been established so far is a healthy beginning and should be continued and expanded, so that more than a privileged one eighth of a class will benefit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Education | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...what sort of secondary school did you receive most of your education? 154 public; 73 private boarding; 69 private day; 3 parochial school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the Questionnaire | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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