Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtroom where for 32 patience-grinding weeks eleven Communist leaders have been on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government by force, defense lawyers melodramatically moved for a mistrial. They charged that the pudgy, moonfaced man occupying seat No. 2 in the jury box had flagrantly violated his duty as a juror. At the very least, the defense added, the juror should be removed from the jury...
When he had learned all that Rubens could teach him, Van Dyck made a trip to London, where he was ignored, and then circled down to Italy, where he found new old masters whose work taught him as much as Rubens' had: Titian and Veronese. Their paintings strengthened his like a blood transfusion, flooding his pictures with dark, rich colors and dignifying their shadowed backgrounds with glimpses of formal gardens, pillars and balustrades. With his liveried servants and coach & four, Van Dyck earned nothing but sneers from Rome's bohemian painters. But his manners as well...
...refurbished love intact. But meanwhile Ellen was going quietly insane. When he came to take her from her ancestral home and the in-laws he despised, she tried to choke him to death. Gregory went away "waiting for a direction, for the blasting and blinding miracle which could teach him how to love...
...Communists' lawyers tried to outshout him, as they had so often done before, Medina peremptorily ordered them to "sit down," and had marshals see that they complied. "Your field day is over," Medina snapped. In Manhattan's Federal Court, the eleven defendants (accused of conspiracy to teach the violent overthrow of the U.S.) looked stunned. Even the lawyers seemed a bit subdued...
When he became president in 1933, Chemist Conant thought that he would never teach a class again. The atom bomb changed his mind. As wartime head of the National Defense Research Committee, he was horrified at the scientific illiteracy around him. Some of his like-minded colleagues, like Chemist Harold Urey of the University of Chicago, decided to spread understanding by direct political lobbying. Conant felt that he should carry on his own crusade in the classroom...