Word: teachings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Charlie Chaddigan went to France To teach the girls the hula-hula dance. Salute to the captain, bow to the queen, And touch the bottom of the sub-mo-rine...
...pudgy, pink-cheeked Poet Dylan Thomas, after a three-month tour of the U.S. "I met Charles Chaplin and Carl Sandburg, and I insulted a rich industrialist." Thomas, who has been writing scripts for the BBC, was puzzled by one thing: "Why do so many American poets teach? They graduate from college, and then they stay in college. When do they learn anything...
Chapin stayed on to teach at the Institute. Following his rule of "painting whatever I have around me" ("I'm oldfashioned. I like to paint from nature"), he soon showed that he could ferret out color in a row of dingy flats, uncover excitement on a deserted street corner...
...MacArthur edict is a peculiar instruction from a man who would teach Japan democracy. It is not directed against Communist espionage; instead it gags words and opinions, snatches that right to free expression which democracy supposedly protects. None of the 24 will be allowed to speak publically, and eight of them who are elected members of the Diet must resign. The ban is extended to seventeen editors of the Communist newspaper, "Akahata"; presumably these men must stop drawing Japanese characters...
BUCKLEY: The alumni should get together and persuade the trustees that the university must have a mission--definite goals which the trustees shall specify, and toward which the institution must guide her students; that to teach them to think is not enough. The student must be encouraged to think and to act along the lines and towards the goals which their educational leaders believe in--and that they believe will best fortify them as Christians and as intelligent and educated men to guard over the destiny of the United States...