Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, McCulloch was poring over official tracts, planning-commission documents and sociologists' reports, and roaming more than 3,000 miles over the sprawling city in pursuit of more than 50 interviews. To get firsthand views of the operation, Associate Editor Alvin M. Josephy Jr., in charge of the picture project, and Contributing Editor Jesse L. Birnbaum, writer of this week's story, flew to California and joined the air and ground forces...
...grinding downtown in her little black Simca, is Buffie. Efficient, charming, she carries the informal title of "assistant to the president," works in a Chinese-modern office next to her husband's Spartan, oak-paneled room, "unofficially" runs the women's pages of the Chandler papers. Current pursuit: the drive to establish a $55 million civic auditorium and music center (against opposition that fairly cringes at the sound of her name...
...this point Malenkov may have made common cause with those old Stalinists, Molotov and Kaganovich, neither of whom Malenkov normally would have chosen as allies. They did not like Khrushchev's plan either, and together the three were able momentarily to check Khrushchev's headlong pursuit of power-partly because Khrushchev was also embarrassed by the Hungarian revolt then raging. At the Central Committee meeting last December, Khrushchev's industrial plans were considerably amended. Deputy Premier Saburov, who was State Planner at that time, was replaced by Deputy Premier Pervukhin, but both apparently obstructed Khrushchev...
...what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate thriller that is short on gore (despite the unlimited possibilities) and long on insight. It is also a drama of the scientific, humanitarian mind led, in its pursuit of ultimate truth, to its blackest dead...
...these men are challenging and often inspiring. The Departments are usually too rigidly committed to the idea that what is best for the scholar is best for Harvard and forget or are afraid to admit that scholarship is not the only worthwhile creative pursuit. As a result, artists and authors are more apt to visit Harvard for a year and give extra-curricular talks, rather than courses where their ideas can be given a closer discussion and where students can exchange ideas with the artist...