Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stress will also be placed upon a thorough study of Middle Eastern history, as well as the area's contemporary economics, politics, and culture...
Author Jungk found this particular superman in an aviation medical-research laboratory in California, whirling around in a centrifuge in an experiment actually calculated to save the lives of jet pilots under stress of heavy-gravity .pull. But Jungk likes the symbol far better than the simple fact. A onetime anti-Nazi German journalist, Jungk covered the U.S. for Swiss newspapers from 1947 to 1953, patiently stalking U.S. science and industry to find poor little superman in a hundred compromising poses. The total provides dazzling new evidence for old-world prejudices about the U.S.-prejudices which most European novelists...
This swollen sense of the past, says Woodward, comes partly from the fact that "history has had to serve Americans as a source of the folklore, myth and legend that seem essential to the spiritual comfort of a people in time of stress. Other nations were born to the heritage of a long and misty prehistoric past that proved a limitless source of myth and legend. But the American past belonged entirely within the historic era. After celebrating their independence, Americans . . . discovered that having banished King George they had lost King Arthur, and along with him a host of patron...
...program promises to renovate Harvard's teaching of architecture. Most important, perhaps, the plan closes the gap between teaching and the new developments in design. Since the twenties, architecture has become increasingly concerned with its artistic and social implications. The new undergraduate courses recognize this shift and rightly stress these creative and aesthetic aspects--what Dean Sert has called, "its higher significance." In addition to keeping pace with the field, the new courses offer prospective architects real help by testing their creative ability early. The student deserves this chance to find what natural ability he has before getting deeply involved...
...several months a great deal has been said on both sides about the policy that has emerged from these promises. Dubbed the "New Look" in a speech by Admiral Arthur Radford last December, it has been hailed by many as a substantial innovation in defense policy. As if to stress the contrast with its Democratic predecessors, Senator Knowland wrote, "the doctrine is a departure from the policy of 'containment' which we have heretofore followed in recent years...