Word: self
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerusalem may be the most dramatic problem facing the United Nations Trusteeship Council, but it is certainly not the only one. The non-self-governing parts of the world, especially Africa, have been a constant dilemma since the establishment of the Council...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
...result, said Berlin, is that scholars and intellectuals find they can no longer believe in their scholarly or intellectual pursuits for their own sake. "Once a community automatically begins to consider disinterested curiosity as being something idle, time-wasting, self-indulgent and, therefore, immoral, it is in a very bad way . . . Few great works of art, or great discoveries of science, have ever been made by men with one eye on the social consequences of their activity...
...Self-Made Man. In Lowell, Mass., Volunteer Fireman John W. Gatham, who is paid only for actual working time, admitted drumming up business by starting 35 fires...
...Moreno was a short, heavy-set man whose pale eyes and greying countenance made him look not unlike a Rivera self-portrait in lithograph...