Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utopia. What is it that the U.S. has to teach Europe? Paradoxically, says Bruckberger, it can teach Europe to be non-puritanical in its politics. Europe has consistently sacrificed man in the flesh to theory in the abstract. The French and Russian Revolutions were Procrustean; if human beings did not fit the bed of Utopia, their heads were chopped off. The American Revolution, on the other hand, assumed that the state was made for man. The founding fathers, suggests Bruckberger, had the uncommon sense to recognize that the people "have no right to deify and worship themselves." Thus...
Konrad Adenauer has always treated his Cabinet ministers as juniors, allowed to walk only in the stern paternal grip of der Alte himself. He has not hesitated to humiliate them in public when he thought it necessary to teach a lesson. But they all sit back and take it; in the ten-year history of the Federal Republic, only one has resigned. Last week West Germans watched fascinated to see if Ludwig Erhard, Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister, would...
Last week a Manchester school set up by Britain's commercial ABC Independent Television Co. to teach show business to clergymen graduated its third class: 13 Roman Catholic priests, including two principals of theological seminaries. Similar five-day courses have been given to 13 Anglican (including two bishops) and twelve Free Church preachers...
...original. Significantly, in his Sunday appraisal of this production, the New York Times' Brooks Atkinson was also moved to invoke the Berlioz work. Although he made some inaccurate statements about both Berlioz and his symphony, his basic point was sound: Berlioz understood the play thoroughly and can still teach us much about it. As Atkinson said, for this play Berlioz "would have been the ideal director...
...believe a member of the Socialist Party should be permitted to teach citizenship courses in public high schools: 102 agree with the above statement; 202 disagree with the above statement...