Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Leslie Bechtel's experience. Hunt took a liking to the earnest young janitor, and set out to prove that he could do more for humanity as a minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life-in the law or in the ministry?' and he gave me the side of the ministry to defend. Well, by the time I was through defending my position. I had convinced myself...
...Flattering Obsession. The American who reads newspapers, listens to the radio or talks public affairs with his friends does not need to be told how all-pervasive the McCarthy topic has become. McCarthy-in-Europe may be more surprising. There, Senator Joseph McCarthy is the second-best known of living Americans and regarded by many as the most powerful. McCarthyism has cost the U.S. billions spent to promote international cooperation and trust and to advance U.S. leadership...
...enlightened and important contribution made to American publishing in many a day . . . An article related to business should be placed alongside business news instead of appearing in sections so remote from the business articles that some of the most constructive comments in American periodicals are seldom read'. . . The topic selected, "The Case for Free Trade," was particularly timely, for the ancient proverb, "Where there is no vision, the people perish," holds truer than ever today...
...unusual, self-censoring move by a student group the Harvard Law School Forum canceled a scheduled April debate featuring the left-wing novelist Howard Fast. The Forum topic, "Communism in Hollywood," was changed to "Limitations on Free Expression." Fast finally spoke at Harvard, under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Union, but only after Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 had denounced student timidity in a letter to the Crimson, undergraduate newspaper...
...Modern Woman a Failure?" So read the program topic at a diocesan conference of Roman Catholic women in Boston last week, and some 1,500 women turned out to listen...