Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drop in dramatic force. Thus, when the student unequivocally assures his worried benefactor that he is not a Communist, he seems morally much more horrifying than when, later on, he gives all the reasons why he is one. In the last act The Egghead becomes a lively enough symposium, but in any creative sense it really ceases to be a play...
Space pioneers of the comics are usually large and knobby with muscles. They are almost always male, though decorative females may be taken along for plot purposes. According to a symposium of psychologists which met in New York last week to discuss the public's notions about space flight, this athlete-type spaceman is miscast for the part. Every ounce of weight and every cubic inch of volume will be precious on a spaceship. Big, strong crewmen will not be welcome. Only brains to act as computers will be needed, plus an absolute minimum of supporting tissue...
...Patterson of Connecticut's Kent School, "that this meeting may be a means of regaining and restating what general education could be within a Christ-centered culture.'' Rector Patterson was addressing a group of theologians and scholars of many faiths who had come for a special symposium marking Episcopal Kent's soth birthday. Now published in book form (The Christian Idea of Education; Yale University; $4), the papers and discussions of that symposium cast fresh light on one of modern education's greatest lacks and needs...
Last week in Rio de Janeiro more than a hundred experts-some top medical men, some ethnologists and botanists-got together for the world's first International Symposium on Curare and Curare-like Agents. For in the meantime, curare has passed from the jungles, where it is an agent of death, to the most aseptic operating theaters, where it is an important aid in many a life-saving operation...
First General Session of the Educational Administration Conference is scheduled to begin Monday at 2:15 p.m. in Baker 100. A symposium will follow at 3:15 p.m. Two more General Sessions are scheduled for the next day, the first at 9:15 a.m., and the last...