Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roger M. Leed '61, chairman of the 20th Century Week Committee, reported that the Committee had been able to raise $1500 from four foundations during the past two weeks and was expecting more contributions. He also noted the possibility of having the transcript of the discussions published in a UNESCO report if the organization considered the week successful...
Radhakrishnan, who has been for several years the vice-President of the Republic of India, leader of the Indian delegation to UNESCO, and the chairman of UNESCO's executive board, has always been devoted to education and teaching. He was professor of Philosophy at the Universities of Madras, Mysore, Calcutta, Benares, and later for many years was Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University. He has done yeoman service to Hindu philosophy and religion, and has contributed a great deal to the study of religion in general. Among his early works are two volumes on Indian philosophy...
...lunches at it.' Some years later, when he designed six stained-glass windows for a new church in the town of Zaandam, 300 parishioners refused to contribute to the building fund. In Paris, a city more used to the out-rageous in art, Appel decorated a restaurant in the UNESCO building. And in Britain, Sir Herbert Read solemnly declared that Appel has found the world "Van Gogh was seeking but did not find the world of abstract expressionism...
Grandson Huxley (outspoken former Director-General of UNESCO, brother of Novelist Aldous) was invited by the London Observer to update the issue in a debate with the Rev. Dr. Eric Lionel Mascall of Christ Church, Oxford, a cleric who holds a bachelor of science degree along with his doctorate of divinity. Huxley insists that the argument is all over, and science...
...charges of sedition, the Reds made their presence felt. A government district worker and a militiaman were ambushed and slain. A band of 60 Communists broke into a rest house north of the capital and stabbed to death Paul Emile Chabert. a Frenchman serving as an education specialist for UNESCO. Later, the Red leader of the band apologized to the murdered man's widow. He had mistakenly thought Chabert was an American, he explained...