Word: soth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan to Peoria. While poverty is as old as mankind, a new and resentful awareness of poverty on the part of millions has become one of the most powerful forces in soth century society. This "revolution of rising expectations," as Economist Staley called it, has only intensified the struggle to seek a more abundant life. In India, for example, the market for bicycles is booming upward at 30% a year, while shoe sales are rising only 4%. Explained one village bicycle salesman: "The villagers are getting lazy. They don't want to walk any more; they want bicycles." While...
...School, "that this meeting may be a means of regaining and restating what general education could be within a Christ-centered culture.'' Rector Patterson was addressing a group of theologians and scholars of many faiths who had come for a special symposium marking Episcopal Kent's soth birthday. Now published in book form (The Christian Idea of Education; Yale University; $4), the papers and discussions of that symposium cast fresh light on one of modern education's greatest lacks and needs...
...normally taciturn air and faithfulness to morning routine gave little hint of it, the day was an important one in the life of Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, ruler and sole owner of Germany's $1 billion Krupp industrial empire. On Alfried Krupp's soth birthday, his worldwide empire was ready to do him honor...
...dare leave Poland for fear that the Communists would not allow him to return), Wyszynski preached his first sermon since his release from Red imprisonment (TIME, Nov. 12). He did not mention Hungary, but his words held bitter aptness: "We were proud of the soth century. Yet that first half of the century has brought with it such terrible stains on almost all social, political and state organs that we can truly regard that century as a great disaster, as a slap in the face to a proud...
Returning God's Ticket. Facing death and chaos head on, the Outsider is heaven-bent, one might say, on finding a transcending meaning and purpose for human existence. In varying ways, he is driven to ask the questions Tolstoy put to himself in his soth year in A Confession: "What is life? Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there any meaning in life that can overcome inevitable death?" As he tries to cope with these questions, the Outsider's horizon clouds over with the problem of evil. Dostoevsky, in The Brothers Karamazov, reduced...