Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most extraordinary scenes the twentieth century can afford for future generations will be the sight of Bertrand Russell in his cell in Brixton Prison, serenely composing his technical Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy while serving the sentence imposed by the British government for the crime of being an active pacifist during World...
RADIO-TELEVISION NEWS: CBS, for the depth and range of such programs as Face the Nation, See It Now, The Twentieth Century, This Is New York...
...Twentieth Century: To explore one crisis in U.S. education, CBS cameramen and reporters visited Bridgeport, Conn, and spent five weeks with the Class of '58 of Warren Harding High School. The frustrating question, not only at Harding but at most U.S. high schools: Why do two-thirds of the brightest graduates, with IQs at least equal to it, fail to go on to college? The answers were not new-lack of money or initiative, intense competition for a handful of college scholarships-but they were vividly personalized. By prolonged exposure to the camera crews, Harding's students...
...Twentieth Century: In CBS's Gandhi, the scrawny, jug-eared little man in the white loincloth looked as Author John Gunther once saw him: an inscrutable "combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall, and your father." Fuzzy images from old films showed the gentle ascetic all but engulfed by the worshiping, hysterical throngs on the mass pilgrimage to the sea to carry out a plan of passive resistance during the British salt monopoly. There was the shrewd lawyer-diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people...
...facts," he continued, "it is dehumanized and dull; but if it is presented as the product of the creative imagination, then, through the interaction of man and nature, the striving for truth and order and beauty makes of science a worthy subject for the humanistic education of the twentieth century...