Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opinion here on Barbara Ward has ranged from the salutation of her 1957 honorary degree: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith," to the more terse judgement from a younger faculty member: "She's vastly overrated...
...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...
Both Barbara Ward and her British husband, Commander Sir Robert G. A. Jackson, chairman of the Development Commission, Government of Ghana, "are interested in almost the same things," especially the developments of "young countries." Lady Jackson's work, which springs from "inner conviction," is more theoretical than her husband's; he is more interested in administrative problems, having had extensive experience in different countries throughout Asia and Africa...
...Miss Ward compared scientific achievement to an iceberg: the Sputniks correspond to the ten per cent which is visible, but there is still a solid base comprising ninety per cent of their achievement which...
...story, as the film tells it, is a sort of magnolia-strewn Jane Eyre. The hero (Yul Brynner) is a gloomy and passionate young man. The heroine (Joanne Woodward) is his ward, a gay young sprig on a rotten family tree. The Compsons have been drunk for a couple of generations, and have long since sold their birthright for a mess of corn liquor. The only thing left is the peeling old plantation house, and there the last of the Compsons live on the charity of the hero, who has become a Compson by adoption and is determined to redeem...