Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request to address the Council was turned down last night, termed the Executive Committee action an attempt to postpone discussion until "the N.S.A. issue dies down." The Council is "under an obligation," he added, to hear his and others' protests now, because of the "hasty manner in which the subject was handled last Monday...
...read from their poetry and patted each other on the back. After a while, the latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group played a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading "Death is the only language death can speak," along with several other poems on the same subject, some in the audience found the idea of the fugitive reunion beginning to cloy...
...snatching up a baby and beating its brains out against the pavement? The question is indeed pertinent, because the blessing is offered in the beautiful 137th Psalm. Such provocative questions are raw material for C. S. Lewis, amateur Christian theologian, whose thoughtful books, lectures and articles on the subject (notably The Screwtape Letters) are now supplemented by a brilliant new volume on the psalms. Philosopher Lewis concludes, among other things, that modern man might be better off if, like psalm people, he broke a few more windows and staged a few more moderate riots. See RELIGION, Lewis on the Psalms...
...quiz athletes team up with actual musclemen. (After the brains match memories in familiar fashion, the brawnier contestants match skills in athletic derring-do.) An announcer's throbbing voice pledged continued loyalty to Twenty-One. But the irrepressible comics had a field day kidding the quizzes. "When the subject of my new show came up," cracked Bob Hope, "all General Sarnoff said was, 'Never mind if it's funny. Is it honest...
...statistics are revealing. The most popular courses in terms of enrollment were American Literature Since 1920, Aspects of the Impressionistic Novel, Modern Poetry, and European Intellectual History of the 19th Century, in that order. This subject-matter sounds less than esoteric for a good normal school...