Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference. He had journeyed to Paris and strengthened U.S. ties with NATO leaders. He had recaptured the diplomatic initiative and restored the cold war perspective in his reply to the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin (TIME, Jan. 20). He had gone far, in his State of the Union message, toward bolstering the public confidence and military energy of the U.S. His special farm and economic messages to Congress carried hard, specific recommendations for bolstering the U.S. economy (see below...
...Real & Unreal. The story of the Wanderer (Lagerkvist names no names) begins with his lack of, charity toward a felon who is being led to a place of execution. The felon, staggering under his cross, says: "You shall suffer greater punishment than mine; you shall never die." Later, whispers reach the Wanderer that the cross-bearer was God's son, and he soon finds out the terror of being immortal on earth: where there is no death, there is no love, at least not in the human sense. The Wanderer leaves his city.-and his age-to take...
...Pusey stresses the need for "equal diligence" toward the social sciences and the humanities. Denying that "the present emergency presents us with an either/or choice," he claims that "these disciplines are no less important than the natural sciences to national security and welfare...
Anderson's book hovers, not altogether successfully, between being a novel about a small town and being a collection of short stories. The book leans toward unity only by having the same characters reoccur every now and then, by presenting most of the characters as similarly crucified by life, and by introducing most of the smaller characters through one person, George Willard, the sensitive young writer...
...Harvard Yearbook is joining the trend toward integration. Cyril V. Smith, Jr. '58, president, announced yesterday that Radcliffe candidates will be accepted for the spring competition. Two girls have already expressed the intention of trying out for the publication...