Word: granting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...time, Africa-instead of what is now Israel-might have become the homeland of the Jews. When Czarist pogroms drove hundreds of thousands of Jews out of Russia before World War I, Britain's Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain drew up a grant of 5,000 sq. mi., in what is now Kenya's white highlands, to serve as a Zionist refuge until the Holy Land should be opened to them. But a Zionist commission inspecting this temporary Promised Land took fright after being nearly crushed by stampeding elephants, surrounded by Masai warriors, and rendered sleepless by roaring lions...
...Hollywood, it was only natural that psychiatric patients undergoing analytic treatment should have visions in wide screen, full color, and observe themselves from cloud nine. What was remarkable was that these phenomena-experienced by (among others) such glossy public personalities as Gary Grant and his third exwife, Betsy Drake-were reported in the cold, grey scientific columns of the A.M.A.'s Archives of General Psychiatry...
Seller's Market. What put the show on the road was a $24.5 million grant from the Ford Foundation in 1957. The operation is still based at Princeton, under President Sir Hugh Taylor, dean emeritus of Princeton's graduate school. But its recruiting setup now spans the nation; 3,000 of the 4,000 fellowships given so far have been awarded since the Ford grant. On U.S. campuses today, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship is fast becoming a domestic version of the Rhodes Scholarship-a peak of academic distinction...
Parton and his colleagues, among them Author-Historian Bruce (Grant Moves South) Catton and Joseph J. Thorndike Jr., onetime managing editor of LIFE, are busily hatching plans to make their sort of publishing even more successful. Last fall they branched out into television as advisers on a special series of hour-long historical dramas, have helped produce the pilot film of a half-hour TV series on the Civil...
...understatement to say that for one book or article in favor of the traditional doctrine, ten have been published defending universal religious freedom." Many of these theologians deal with the problem of giving rights to error by making a distinction between protecting error and the moral obligation to grant freedom of conscience-whether conscience is in error or not. Dr. Carillo quotes German Jesuit Theologian Max Pribilla: "Religious liberty, when it is understood correctly, does not mean the protection of error, but the protection of the erring men who should not be prevented from serving God according to their conscience...