Word: toward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point out a curious relationship between the two stories? Korzybski says that what's wrong with people with "Aristotelian orientations" is that they tend to build their attitudes and their lives on verbal definitions . . . His "non-Aristotelian" theory is directed toward getting people past their definitions and words, i.e., blasting a few holes in the verbal wall that stands between them and reality...
...hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up." Molotov had been ousted. Vishinsky was Stalin's newest fair-haired boy. What it all meant was a tougher Soviet policy toward the West. On the other hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than...
...steadily increasing responsibility. Nagasaki's normal cheerfulness has been largely restored by giving personal needs priority over industrial recovery. Food is nearly up to prewar level, with one-seventh the supply provided by America. Department stores are well stocked, especially compared to Europe. Steady progress has been made toward rebuilding the destroyed 47% of the city's housing...
...afternoon at the final session of the conference, Alonzo G. Grace, Director of the Education and Cultural Relations Division of the Military Government for Germany, will deliver a talk on the conference's keynote, "Education Toward What...
...Education Toward What End" is the theme of the 58th annual conference of the Harvard Teachers Association which convenes at 10 p.m. today in Littauer Auditorium. The meetings, jointly sponsored by the Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Teachers Association, will continue through the week on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday...