Word: teachings
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Finally, China unmistakeably felt that Russia was deliberately withholding economic aid from it. Many Chinese believed that Russia feared a strong China almost as much as it did a strong United States. In China, schools are compelled to teach Russian, while in Russia very few know Chinese. This irritated many patriotic Chinese...
...eight hours a week, plus special workouts during holidays); it is as nerve-racking as a final exam, as grueling in its way as a Ph.D. oral. It is also a part of U.S. education that is duplicated nowhere else in the world. "What we're trying to teach the boys," says Livestock Expert George. Reid, "is the sense of making a sound, systematic decision. That's useful in any walk of life, but if a boy is a rancher, buying stock or buying meat, this training applies specifically...
Four other state governors were inaugurated last week: Texas. Governor Allan Shivers, sworn in for his third full term, quoted from the Book of Psalms. "So teach us to number our days," said Shivers, who says that he wants to retire after this term (ending in 1957). Wealthy and still young (47), he ran partly so that he could lead a con servative Texas delegation to the 1956 Democratic convention. He helped swing Texas to Ike in 1952, but may now make peace with new Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler. Shivers has spent more for schools and hospitals than...
...fact that he now wears glasses: "Musicians have no expression in their eyes anyway." On piano music: "Beethoven suits me best because I thoroughly understand it. I find Mozart difficult, and dangerous. I play Prokofiev because people expect me to-I do not consider it important." On teaching: "If I have to teach, I do it pretty well." This year he will cut his concerts to 30 a year. Says he: "I want to have time for things that are important to me." Among the most important: jazz. This spring he plans to form his own jazz combo in Vienna...
Therefore, the widespread suggestion to teach some kind of interdenominational religion in schools strikes Philosopher White as nonsensical. "Any educational effort to nourish religious feeling by trying to present an abstract essence of religion must fail . . . [We should] become frankly sectarian . . . and therefore limit higher religious instruction to the divinity schools which are properly devoted to the study and the propagation of specific religions conceived as total ways of life, knowledge, emotion and action...