Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marcel Breuer, former research professor of Architecture, was the designer of "The Student Arts Center"; Curt H. Reisinger '12 gave the largest donation ($250,000); and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will help dedicate the ultra-modern building at 10:45 a.m. today...
...Edward A. Shils, professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago and consultant to the Air Force's ultra-secret Rand Corporation, leads off with a long and bitter analysis of the McCarran situation: "A very large number of distinguished European scientists, almost all of them anti-Communist and deeply devoted to the freedom in which scientific truth is sought and discovered, have been frustrated in their efforts to come to the United States to share their knowledge with their American colleagues. [Sometimes] their applications for visas have been .. . finally granted, but only after delays so long that...
...respects . . . The vast majority of our people, the low-income group, are not opposed to New Deal measures other than the attempts to promote racial equality. They have benefited greatly from the Democratic programs, and will probably stay with the party if it promises to continue these programs. The ultra-conservatives are really not typical of the state as a whole...
Return of the Purged. Yoshida's principal difficulty is that he presides over a divided party. Among the winning candidates were 139 former war criminals and ultra-nationalists once purged from government by the U.S. authorities. First among them is ailing Ichiro Hatoyama, 69, founder and first leader of the Liberal Party, who was all set to become Japan's first postwar premier until U.S. newsmen discovered that he had once glowingly praised Hitler and Mussolini. He was purged. Yoshida agreed to take his place, but now that Hatoyama is free again, Yoshida refuses to surrender control...
...Saint Sophia, a white concrete building whose square towers and copper Byzantine domes gave Angelenos at least a hint of its namesake in Istanbul* The new church is a striking mixture of Eastern and Western ideas. It combines Byzantine-style altar screens and air conditioning, painted icons and an ultra-modern public-address system. The architects have even thought of adding wireless hand microphones for clerics to use in church processions...