Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sukarno and Voroshilov arrived at the presidential palace, a group of admirers swarmed toward Sukarno's Lincoln convertible. Jittery Soviet and Indonesian security officers ordered the police into action. Swinging clubs and rifle butts, the police charged the crowd. A police jeep drove head-on into one group of spectators. Enraged, the crowd counterattacked, were driven off only after army units used tear-gas bombs...
Economic fumbling and pressure on the banks at last turned Colombia's business. men against Rojas; corruption and killing earned him the wrath of the church. Toward the end of last week, ignoring Rojas' attempt to smooth over the rift, Colombia's Primate Crisanto Cardinal Luque issued a pastoral letter with his bitterest attack yet on Rojas. That night, the dictator's military supporters gathered for a worried meeting...
...introduction of lectureships for artists and the presence of artists in residence, another suggestion made by the Overseers, was acclaimed nationally as a sound idea. This would not only enrich Harvard's art program but would inaugurate a valuable attitude toward the artist, viewing him as an articulate intellectual rather than an artisan in his own ivory tower...
...this legal approach to the case that detracts the most from the book. The work is a microscopic observation of the whole Chambers-Hiss case from Hiss' point-of-view, a point-of-view already well-known. Hiss tells the reader little about his intellectual background, especially his attitude toward radicalism, something that is crucial to the whole Case. One wonders why he does not treat the events before 1948 more freely; why we do not meet his friends of the thirties; and why we do not learn more about his political views. These are some of the questions that...
...very name course reduction assumes somewhat of a negative aspect. It is the college's way of groping toward the hazy ideal of independent study. Its presence in the curriculum, however, might conceivably act as a crutch in defending the present general system against new curricular suggestions. If exceptions to the present rules can be made, it might be argued that maybe there is no need to reconsider the rules themselves. As it stands now, then, the Program of Advanced Standing is a necessary and valuable adjunct to the present course system, but it is no prelude to any basic...