Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days when imperial Japan was running its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, it drafted Koreans for forced labor in Japan. These Koreans and their children, more than 600,000 strong, have been there ever since. Many of them want to go home, and the Japanese, who have no love for Koreans, would like to be rid of them. South Korea's strong-minded President Syngman Rhee, who once underwent torture at Japanese behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason...
Speaking first, Howe stated two arguments against the disclaimer affidavit of the NDEA. First, he said, from a technical, legal point of view, the affidavit provides criminal penalties for a false statement or a question of opinion. This is "an intrusion of criminal law into the sphere of belief," he contended, and thus "a denial" of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment...
...religion is formally removed from the College sphere, a crucial problem arises: namely, the moral education of the student. Among those most actively concerned with the implications of secularism at Harvard is President Pusey, who last June devoted his Baccalaureate address to the subject of moral philosophy at Harvard. Describing the history of this subject in American colleges and particularly at Harvard, he went on to discuss the position of moral concerns in the contemporary college...
Although the University is often referred to as a community of scholars, the force of the word community goes largely unnoticed. There is little sense of community outside the intellectual sphere at Harvard, even in the matter of generosity toward one's fellow students...
...feel that religious beliefs are among the central issues in the conflict between the Soviet sphere and the "West...