Word: understandably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malraux turned on Boulloche, snapped: "Neutralization in teaching does not exist." At one point, De Gaulle firmly reminded his quarreling ministers, "We are no longer under the Fourth Republic," warned them that an impasse in the Cabinet could sweep it out of office. To Boulloche he said, "I understand your conscience but think also of the Fifth Republic and the regime." Finally, fearing that Boulloche's resignation might lose De Gaulle the support of the left on which he depends for his Algerian negotiations, De Gaulle told Debre to accept Boulloche's amendments and sent the draft bill...
...used the way you want it to." Dana gave generously to hospitals; then (in 1956) he discovered small colleges. They seemed to him especially deserving: "At a big university, there's no development of natural resources through companionship. I think students in the small college understand life more. Life at a small college broadens them, and they study harder...
From now on, there would always be the memory of the fear she experienced during her experiment with blindness. After weeks of work, Actress Bancroft was beginning to understand that last dimension of the role for which she was preparing. Already a part of her was onstage, creating with incredible vitality a superior human being: half-blind Anne Sullivan, whose stubborn skill lit up life itself for a deaf, blind and mute child named Helen Keller. Already, Anne Bancroft was The Miracle Worker of Playwright William Gibson's impressive new play (TIME...
...dream come true. In his book on the Burma Road, Guns Through Arcady (1941), Dr. Slater wrote hopefully of ". . . men who will join hands not because they hold their own faiths lightly, but because they hold them deeply, each loyal to his own tradition but anxious to understand others." The Harvard center will be housed in a two-story building with apartments for eleven married students and visiting scholars, eight single students, one visiting professor, and Dr. Slater and his wife. Each apartment will have its own kitchen so that residents may prepare their food according to their own dietary...
Harvard University announced an important new addition to its educational plant last week. Work will begin immediately on a Center for the Study of World Religions, where believers from all over the world may live, talk and seek to understand each other's faiths. Funds for the center were supplied by an estate that insists on anonymity-the same donor who last year endowed Harvard's first professorship in world religions. And the man who occupies that chair-Canada's topflight Theologian Robert Slater-will head the new center...