Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools are concerned, Los Angeles is not noted as a city of peace and quiet. Not so long ago, right-wing critics raised such a fuss that the schools dropped a special UNESCO-sponsored study program. Later, Superintendent Alexander Stoddard was forced to turn down a Ford Foundation grant for the recruiting of teachers because the same sort of critics charged that the foundation was following the Communist line...
...expanding on the work of UNESCO, said that this group has used science to work for peace by providing scientists from different nations with symposia to discuss common problems, through international projects...
...only group with an interest in movies as an art form. The United Nations Council's Unesco Division-the "C" is for "cultural"- also has an interest in international art forms. Although the Council has seen fit to withdraw temporarily from the film business the UNESCO Division is currently the sponsor of a folk dance series-and is not making a penny out of it. Sincerely, Samuel Olevsen...
...budding concert career, sent the boy to high school and Haverford College. Julius buckled down to his studies, majored in philosophy and literature, became a Phi Beta Kappa and won the scholarship (awarded by the French government) that took him to Paris. In 1946 he played at the first UNESCO Festival and, with a pocketful of fine notices, set off on the rounds of European and Near Eastern music centers...
...postwar years, children's pictures all over Europe and Asia showed two common themes: food and ruins. Last week an art contest, sponsored by a French magazine and UNESCO, bringing forth children's work from 34 countries, showed that the specters of hunger and war have somewhat receded. Regional moods could be detected. Scandinavian pictures were dark and brooding, Italian entries sunny and gay. One youngster from the Cameroons painted a fearsome witchdoctor, a Hungarian contestant did a festival scene with a hammer & sickle. Worldwide winner: Tulip Fields, an imaginative, untroubled pastoral by The Netherlands' Hans Evendik...