Word: topical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There a New Look in Russian Foreign Policy?" will be the topic for the Harvard U.N. Council's panel discussion at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson...
...Nebraska, four state teachers colleges banned the topic outright. Students, said President Herbert Gushing of the Kearney, Neb. College, should not be allowed to "spend half their time arguing the Communist side." The commanding officers of Annapolis and West Point apparently agreed. To argue the affirmative, said the Navy, would make the Academy's young men "liable to misrepresentation, as well as providing the Reds a tremendous propaganda device." At Duke University, one debater reported that he had received a letter from his Congressman. "I certainly hope," warned Representative Edward Robeson, "that you will not undertake to debate...
When the Speech Association of America picks the annual topic for intercollegiate debates, it likes the subject to be as lively as possible. But this year's topic -"Resolved, That the United States should extend diplomatic recognition to the Communist government of China"-has proved to be livelier than usual. Last week that debate was leading to another: How controversial should a debate...
...Oxford team turned down the Debate Council's suggested topic, admission of Communist China to the United Nations, in favor of a philosophical subject, "Resolved, That progress depends on the unreasonable man." The Oxenisns declared they were tired of the Red China topic...
...Dynamics of Westernization in the Middle East" will be the topic discussed by Raphael Patai, professor of Anthropology at Dropsie College, at 8 p.m. tonight in the auditorium of the Littauer Center for Public Administration...