Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vice' is a matter of purely personal philosophy; that a country that guarantees freedom of religion has no right to make laws about morals ; that public opinion is divided as to whether smoking, drinking, gambling and professional sex service are vices; that the church has the right to teach these certain acts are wrong, but has no right to prohibit them." This view is connected with the belief of many leading Galveston businessmen that sin is good for business; that the tourist trade would fall off if gambling and prostitution were sup pressed...
...real theme of Self Condemned is a blow-by-blow account of how a proud, independent man loses his integrity and makes a peace-without-honor with a way of life he despises. Professor Rene Harding leaves Britain because he finds himself hemmed in and hampered trying to teach his students his own version of history; Canada, he believes, will be different. Instead, Harding finds not only that the New World is as cautious and tight-lipped as the Old, but that history is an even more terrible problem than he had imagined...
...India the Foundation has trained thousands of skilled "extension workers" who will go back to their own villages and teach new farming methods. In Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Syria the Foundation has supported projects to train women in home economics, nursing, and other vocational skills...
...might have hoped that seven bitter years of war in Indochina would teach the French government the folly of resisting the force of an aroused native nationalism. But the hard lessons of imperialism in Asia seem to have been largely lost on France, unlike the other major European colonial powers. Recent events in South Viet Nam indicate that the French are still fighting a vigorous rear guard action to save the last vestiges of their colonial power in the Far East...
...renown in the field of history Karpovich presently occupies a chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and he is probably best known at the College as lecturer in Slavic 150, a survey of modern Russian literature. The big change began about six years ago, when he was asked to teach a literature course and obligingly agreed--although his only qualification was that he had "read the books and liked them." Since then he has spent more and more time studying the nineteenth century authors about whom he lectures, but he still considers himself primarily a historian, and teaches at least...