Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contradict the statement that I "flunked" my Cambridge entrance in Latin the first time and "barely squeaked" in on the second [Dec. 22]. The truth is that I managed it the first time, as anyone with the merest suggestion of intelligence could. At the level required, the subject matter is necessarily restricted to archaic absurdities that can no longer inspire the young mind, if they ever could: "The sailors sacrifice the bull on the altar of the immortal gods!" This is the sort of bull we have got to be prepared to sacrifice...
...would be difficult for them to raise prices. Had these measures of "truth and severity" been proposed by anyone but De Gaulle, France would surely have been in for a vicious round of strikes, profiteering and social unrest. De Gaulle himself, despite his prestige, probably could not have dared subject them to parliamentary debate. As it was, the prevailing French response seemed to be one of pained resignation rather than revolt. In France's mood of renewed national pride, and of reluctant awareness of peril, Paris' Le Monde pointed the moral: "There is no reform without effort...
...feelings. Doctors were callously more interested in his stoma and stomach than in him. He refused to be a human guinea pig. But in 1941 at New York Hospital, Drs. Harold G. Wolff and Stewart Wolf made a deal: on their payroll, Tom would spend his mornings as a subject of medical study, his afternoons as a handyman around the laboratory. Peppery about his right of privacy, Tom made the doctors promise not to publish his last name anywhere, or a recognizable picture outside a medical journal...
...John Gielgud standing on an unadorned stage reciting Shakespeare. If such an all-Shakespeare recital must differ from an all-Beethoven program by offering excerpts rather than whole works, it yet resembles it in one important way. It communicates the range and richness, above all the uniqueness of its subject. That it manages to do so, that it seems no mere Victorian display of The Beauties of Shakespeare, is tribute to the range and richness of the interpreter...
...addition, Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, will speak to the Bowdoin Political Forum today in Brunswick, Me. Former adviser to the Office of Military Government in Germany, Friedrich will speak on the subject of "Inevitable Peace...