Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down at Yale, they make a big deal over charity. Like frisbee and Ivy Magazine, like snowball riots and football movies, giving is "shoe." At Harvard, if you can't afford to throw it away, you can't afford to give it away. Harvardmen being as self-conscious as they are, a gift of too much is as embarrassing as a gift of too little...
Summoning newsmen to a dingy press office on Tunis' Rue des Entrepreneurs, Rebel Press Spokesman Ahmed Boumendjel announced that his "government" was agreeable to negotiations with France "to discuss the conditions and applications" of the self-determination vote that De Gaulle has promised Algeria. The rebels even named their proposed representatives : five rebel officials headed by Mohammed ben Bella, 40, the bemedaled former French army sergeant who was the chief organizer of the Algerian revolt and the man most regarded as the villain by right-wing French settlers in Algeria...
...need never leave the premises. He gets a private room at low rental; no Moscow hotel serves better food than his cut-rate cafeteria. He can warm his mind in the 1,200,000-book library, cool off in the massive swimming pool. His labyrinthine alma mater is a self-contained city, with 133 elevators and miles of columned marble corridors; its 45,000 rooms include 168 lecture halls and 1,700 first-rate laboratories. Geography students alone have 20 labs, featuring such (militarily) educational gadgets as special projectors for aerial photographs...
Died. Heitor Villa-Lobos, 72, self-taught, prolific Brazilian composer who combined the counterpoint of Bach with the vigorous rhythms of native Brazilian music in more than 2,000 works (Bachianas Brasileiras, Seréstas), gloried in the fact that he constantly shifted his style, followed no one line of development or school, founded the Brazilian National Academy of Music, directed massive choruses drawn from all levels of the population; in Rio de Janeiro. In a life of strenuous activity, Villa-Lobos lived up to his own code: "Life is a gamble, and I'm for gambling." He voyaged...
...Americans who have accepted the notions of William James and John Dewey, no less than for Nikita Khrushchev, truth is apt to be just a matter of whose ox is gored. Britain's logical positivists, who believe that philosophy can never reach beyond semantics, are engaged in the self-devouring enterprise of proving their right to say less and less about fewer and fewer things...