Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Foster Dulles, 71, died from cancer and the complications of pneumonia. "Is it all over?" a member of the family asked. One of the doctors nodded. Janet Dulles moved quietly to the head of the bed and looked down at her husband's face. Nobody said a word. And in all the lands of the globe where liberty and independence are prized, the free and the thoughtful mourned the tough old warrior who had fought their fight with rare purpose, skill and dedication...
...spreading Christianity. "The Eskimo has a fantastic memory," says Bishop Marsh. "He memorizes everything-most of them have memorized at least one book of the Bible. When a missionary comes in contact with a family, the Eskimo remembers what the missionary tells him and carefully repeats it word for word when he meets up with another family in his travels...
...beat is different from the other generations of revolt. Other generations have wanted to set up a counter-institutional world; even we anarchists wanted to do that. But the beat sees all these movements as being entrapped in the world of the square. The word square means four-cornered, or lacking flexibility. Of course, we all have some element of squareness in us. But the point is that the beat refuses to have any real dialogue with the world of the square, and this to me is fatal...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). For those who failed to get the word the first time, a second run of Riot in East Berlin, pieced together from mem orable smuggled films...
...degree cited Harvard as "both our oldest university and one of our most youthful, vigorous, imaginative, and in a word, one of our greatest universities." It was presented by Alfred E. Mirsky '22 for the Institute...