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Word: spiriting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar cases. It is faced with the uncomfortable alternatives of denying school boards the right to approach desegregation in their own fashion (The NAACP is currently trying to force a North Carolina town into producing an overall desegregation plan), or allowing a skillful legal device to sabotage the spirit of its 1954 ruling. The question of whether assignment by race is justified when accompanied by the right to appeal for transfer is central in the case. If it is justified, Southern schools will have their "pioneers," Jackie Robinsons of education, indefinitely and the Federal Courts will be faced with dozens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pupil Placement | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

Professor Cohen teaches Phil. 139 and holds forth with Nietzsche, Mill, and Santayana in Emerson F. The Nietzschean spirit seems to haunt the the rest of the building at this hour. For the up-and-coming Raskolnikov Dr. Wheeler in Soc. Rel. 184 (Emerson A) carefully examines where such greats as Willy Sutton and Mack the Knife slipped up. As insurance, "cops and robbers" finishes up with a study on the ins and outs of prisons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Classgoer | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...would see when and if he had the patience and interest to look: tall Iowa corn; a white-painted New England church; buildings under construction in U.S. cities; an Army Redstone missile; a gate at Brown University in Providence, R.I.; a new U.S. automobile; the presence of the guiding spirit of Abraham Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman love, selfish and selfless love, the dyer's wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange for another's misery. Moving between the human and the spirit world, the opera blazes with magic effects: a sword swinging from nowhere, fish conjured from the air into a frying pan, a chorus of "unborn children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco's Pennant | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...anywhere in this country, the students will find themselves responsible for their own education through independent study. Our aim is to render the professor dispensable at the earliest possible moment. Our university is a place of the mind, and the mind is an activity, not a repository. In this spirit we invite students to come and learn with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Invitation to Living | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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