Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nigeria's students, in turn, can expect to be highly influential in their country's affairs. The much-needed skills they acquire will enable them to occupy positions of power much more rapidly than can the average collegian in this country. They will soon be making decisions of no small consequence to America...
This state activity effects certain changes in the educational system. First, it alters its whole purpose. Schools and universities are expected to turn out men motivated and trained to further the development of their country, rather than well-rounded individuals trained in the liberal arts. The ideal, as set forth in The Beacon, is not so much "knowledge for its sake" as "education inspired with a social purpose...
...independence of the Latin American countries in the 1820's caused musicians to turn to folk material of their individual countries for inspiration, Chavez said. However, he pointed out, folk material is limited...
...must look neither to religious conversion ("mainly a cheap self-gratification for psycho-neurotics"), nor to psychoanalysis ("please regard it as the last step before suicide"), nor to changes in political leadership ("but who is going to guard the Guardians?"). The main channels are blocked. To what can man turn...
...signals over a single radio frequency. New York City's WBAI started to broadcast stereo last week; WRCA-FM will begin next week. Manhattan's two-year-old Madison Fielding Corp. last month put out a multiplex stereo adapter that can be attached to any FM radio, turn it into a stereo set. Price...