Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when she received her honorary degree, Barbara Ward--Lady Jackson in private life--had published her book Faith and Freedom and had just completed a term as Visiting Lecturer on Government. This year the noted corresponding editor of the Economist is back for her third spring in Cambridge. The visit is the result of a Carnegie Foundation Grant, administered through Radcliffe, making it possible for Miss Ward "to look into various aspects of economic assistance programs and their effectiveness in relation to American long-term policy." Work under the Grant causes her to divide her time between Washington, UN Headquarters...
...activities in Massachusetts is uneven but interesting; Mr. Miller's utter, earnest conviction flames forth from every line of it. The performance it receives at the Charles Playhouse is incompletely authoritative (many of the players, for one thing, are badly in need of diction lessons), but still worth a visit...
...alone, Junkman Fraiman died in Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital of coronary thrombosis. Last week Yeshiva officials blinked at the totally unexpected news that he had left the university some $250,000. Try as they might, no one could remember the little man who had paid Yeshiva a visit two decades...
...didn't last eight days. After all, nothing in Scripture says that I have to eat alone." The ultra-conservative editors of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano have even been known to censor what they consider an unseemly papal frankness. When, on a precedent-breaking visit to Rome's Queen of Heaven prison, John told the jailbirds that "one of my relatives who was out hunting without a license was caught by the carabinieri and sent to jail for a month." L'Osservatore reported that "His Holiness recalled the bad impression he received...
...theological implications of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. He would bribe maidservants with a guinea in order to investigate whether or not they had tails: discovery of a vestigial caudal appendage of course would help the Darwinian faction. His scientific passion caused his social ruin during the visit of a German grand duchess whose family was reputed to be fitted with a Darwinian decoration...