Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book called The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948)-a waggish study of how to win games "without actually cheating." Last week, in School and Society, a U.S. dean did much the same thing for "Academic Respectability"-how to attain it without actually knowing how to teach. If members of the profession will only follow a few simple rules, writes Dean H. T. Morse of the University of Minnesota's General College, such respectability is assured...
...Crawford had hair and proved it by taking off her hat. She also had tact, wit and a will beneath the hat, and proved it thereafter in one of the toughest assignments in the British Empire. For the next 16 years (until 1949), "Crawfie's" job was to teach the outspoken little girl and her tart-tongued sister their respective places - as royal princesses of the world's greatest monarchy...
These clashing points of view were summed up by an impartial churchman: "It is a question of emphasis. One faction says that we must teach people how to say their prayers, but we must also see that they have good working conditions and have a just deal. The other faction says that if you emphasize the working conditions and the just deal too much, you're tackling a problem which will never be entirely solved, and people may forget how to say their prayers. If you fight Communism, which talks about a heaven on earth, just by saying...
Poet Viereck first noticed how common the new Babbittry had become when he returned to teach history at Harvard after World War II. "Philistinism," he realized, "had acquired a new content, a new set of conditioned reflexes. It was still mongering clichés, but the clichés had changed . . . The main activity of the new-style Philistine has become the facile game of philistine-baiting...
Young (26) Author Timothy Angus Jones is the son of Sir Roderick Jones, onetime chairman of Reuters news agency. His tightly written novel is smooth and credible. But his mother, Enid (National Velvet) Bagnold, could teach him a thing or two about storytelling...