Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's most popular political leader, he is also the U.S.'s most effective ambassador. Last week Ike announced an historic presidential diplomatic mission. He will swing for 19 days and 19,500 miles through nine nations of Southern Europe and Southern Asia, centering on the Western summit meeting in Paris, Dec. 19. Said he: There will not be "a great deal of time for dallying along...
...program could be funnier, and truer to Twain if some of the cuttings were better. If Twain is "America's funniest humorist," as all the advertisements say, and even if he isn't--much of his charm rests on an especially endowed talent for spinning the old Western tall tale. Sometimes the story-teller, without cracking a smile, is able to convince his victim that his whole tale is gospel truth and is able to use this tale for all sorts of devious ends. But the comic aspect lies chiefly in the exaggerated proportions of the tale itself...
...fact that 32 more undergraduates have enrolled in the language courses this year than in 1957 shows, he felt, that College students are "stepping beyond the point of general interest." Even sophomores are joining non-Western social science and languages courses, without having to "justify it to themselves," as they would have had to 15 years ago, Reischauer said...
...MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time, with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
...MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...