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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where permanent Jewish courts do not exist, questions of law are decided, as they arise, by rabbis or councils of rabbis. Any Jew may bring a case before the Beth Din; indeed, it is his duty, if he is bothered about a point of the Law. He pays the court what he can and, as a man of faith, accepts its decisions as binding, † When the Beth Din sits (daily except religious holidays), the rabbis wear prayer shawls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Permanent Court | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...work. It is a lazy man's short-cut to a diploma, a method of cheating for a Harvard degree. Unethical, too, because of the gross commercialization which has taken tutoring far beyond its legitimate limits, which has created a false and unhealthy demand where one should not exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT OPINION | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Garvey, who in the 19205 aroused millions of Negroes to a frenzy of enthusiasm for life in Africa. Although Jamaica-born Marcus Garvey was convicted of using the mails to sell fraudulent stocks and was deported, Mrs. Gordon still thinks he is the greatest of Negroes. "Garvey Clubs" still exist, and what is left of his Universal Negro Improvement Association backs the Bilbo bill. Chief opposition comes from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose pale-skinned President Walter White is denounced as an "amalgamationist" by Senator Bilbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mr. Bilbo's Afflatus | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Joyce's method is new. Dreams exist as sensation or impression, not as speech. Words are spoken in dreams, but they are usually not the words of waking life, may be capable of multiple meanings, or may even be understood in several different senses by the same dreamer at the same moment. Since dreams take place in a state of suspended consciousness, out of which language itself arises, Joyce creates, in Finnegans Wake, a dream language to communicate the dream itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...high pressure tactics would be gone. It makes little difference whether or not tutoring is really advantageous to the student. Regardless of how useless a review--consisting of oversimplified digests of lecture notes--may be, persuasive advertisements make him imagine that actual benefit can be had. This situation would exist even under a system of perfect examinations. In printing an advertisement of a parker-Cramer review, the Progressive is helping to foster the exaggerated demand for spoon-fed education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLANK ATTACK | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

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