Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really off to TIME for the recognition shown our Missileman Wernher von Braun. Every living American should feel deeply indebted to this man for his never-ending effort toward guarding the security and well-being of our American way of life...
Already the U.S.S.R.'s gregarious new Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail Menshikov, making his rounds of visits from the White House to Capitol Hill, was making headlines with meaningless proposals for a U.S.-U.S.S.R. friendship pact as a step toward "peace on our planet...
...Dime-a-Dance." Perhaps the best economic news of the week was evidence of basic agreement between responsible Republicans and Democrats in Washington. The agreement was hidden by a barrage of partisanship touched off by Harry Truman's blast at the Administration's stony-hearted attitude toward the recession. Republicans replied in kind, waving at Harry such red-flag terms as "dime-a-dance oratory" and "typical Truman claptrap." Even the President joined in the counterattack. "The economy of this country is a lot stronger than the spirit of those people that I see wailing about...
...scientific manner. This may be the soundest method in the long view, but pedagogically, it is rather more doubtful. After a year of music study essentially divorced from music itself, the student may become disillusioned with music as a formal study. The technical approach, through Music 51, tends toward a kind of dehumanization of music, reducing it in the eyes of the student to a study of rules and observation, of when they are applied, and when broken...
...time has come, said Woodring, for teachers colleges to stress not personality but productivity. "The graduate programs for master teachers and administrators, including the programs leading to the Ed.D. degree, should include and require a much larger portion of the liberal studies. We must work toward the view that an educational leader is not merely an organization man but should be primarily an intellectual, a scholar, and a man of ideas. This will represent a sharp reversal of a trend of the past 30 years, but a reversal we must make if educational leadership at the level of ideas...