Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nuclear fission used to be a subject upon which a writer could simply crank up and let loose, but no longer . . . Space flight is still good for a yarn, but already one university offers a course in theoretical astrogation...
Relatively few Americans had been out to Asia, and few had the heebie-jeebies over it. The new Truman budget (see above) cut the China aid program to ribbons. Last week one man did speak out firmly, and he spoke out firmly even if many Americans regarded the whole subject of China as something to be swept beneath the rug and ignored...
...primeval Adam. In accordance with the Nationalist government's policy of apartheid (segregation), Indians and Negroes were barred from the exhibit. Roared big-fisted Sculptor Epstein in London: "The Adam was intended to represent the beginnings of all men . . . Under such Nazi principles of racial selectivity the subject of the statue himself would not be allowed to have a look...
...speech José Ortega y Gasset made that night was on an academic subject-Arnold J. Toynbee's Study of History (TIME, March 17, 1947). But all over Madrid last week, it was the talk of the coffeehouses. It had been twelve years since Spain's most celebrated living philosopher had gone into voluntary exile when Franco came to power. Now, with Franco's permission, he was back lecturing again. He had been told to stick to cultural subjects, but Ortega seemed to have other plans. He had chosen to lecture on Toynbee merely "to loosen...
...attending Presbyterian missionaries' lectures, but also expressing surprise that Christianity teaches brotherly love and the brotherhood of man. But missionary leaders are well aware of what is likely to happen to such tolerant policies when the Communists have their military victory behind them. Said Dr. Ballou on the subject last week: "I've got more hope than I've got faith...