Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syria's Colonel Adib Shishekly, heard an ancient, chilling summons. "A jihad (holy war) for the right and defense of the freedoms of people," demanded the sheik in his sermon. The jihad was designed to support "our brothers in North Africa in their struggle against imperialism" and to teach France an "eloquent lesson...
...goes back to the purpose of a museum. "Art," says Taylor, "is the intimate record of the creative vision . . . Nothing can convey the dignity of man so wonderfully as a great work of art; no lesson in citizenship can teach so well the inherent nobility of the human being." He has seen a full day cut from the U.S. work week in his time-from 48 to 40 hours a week. "I think the problem of keeping the adult mind occupied is probably the greatest challenge we face...
...unless they answer the questions of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as to whether they are or ever were members of the Communist Party. Said the trustees: "The refusal of a faculty member, on the grounds of possible selfincrimination, to answer [such] questions . . . impairs confidence in his fitness to teach. It is also incompatible with the standards required of him as a member of his profession." ¶In South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan, as Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch, 1) gave his son his B.A. degree, and 2) issued a few stern Malan-props about a university...
...Angered by the local P.T.A.'s criticism of the way schools teach the three Rs these days, the sophomore class of Washington's Coulee Dam High School challenged the grown-ups to an old-fashioned spelling bee. Last week, for 20 minutes, the grown-ups did their best, but they missed embarrassment, flubbed efficiency, collapsed on laboratory and paraffin. Final score: victory for the sophomores...
Blackbeard, the Pirate (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio), an expensively Technicolored penny dreadful, casts Robert Newton as the infamous 18th century privateer Edward Teach, popularly known as Blackbeard. In this fanciful biography, Blackbeard is as blackhearted a buccaneer as ever sailed the Spanish Main. As one of his own crew puts it, he "would make the flesh crawl on a squid." His shaggy beard daintily decorated with red ribbons, Blackbeard goes about flogging, stabbing and stringing up his enemies with the greatest of gusto, laughing fiendishly all the while. He cuts his rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards...