Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate courses, Professor Kittredge was less overbearing. He held at least one seminar a year in his home, where he was completely at ease. His teaching technique in these seminars was such that it caused one graduate student to remark, "I'm studying Beowulf with Beowulf himself...
...last. The latest critic: Robert Schuman, himself head of two of France's 24 postwar governments, and now newly elected president of the European Parliamentary Assembly. In the course of a speech on European integration given at the University of Virginia, Schuman injected a "marginal and probably incautious remark." Said...
Schuman later explained that any step toward "stability and authority" must be taken only through "democratic and parliamentary measures," but his "incautious remark" sounded like one more cautious invitation for a return of General Charles de Gaulle, 67, who sits in Mac-Arthurian solitude at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises waiting for the French Assembly to admit its own bankruptcy and send for him on his own terms...
Most striking notions of the evening: 1) Tuve's suggestion that love of learning be rekindled among high school teachers by giving them time off for their own scholarship, and 2) Rickover's observation -prompted by a remark on the "union card" restrictions for teacher .certification fossilized into law by pressure from the teachers' colleges: "I hope this audience knows that neither Dr. Killian nor Dr. Tuve could qualify for a permanent teaching job in the high schools of this city...
Retorted Dody: "I acted the same in the beginning, but slowly the things he hired me for he is criticizing me for now. Now everybody can bounce off me but I'm not supposed to bounce off them. Jack will take an innocent remark the wrong way. Now, when I just look at him it makes...