Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Salzburg Seminar, a unique organization designed to help Europeans understand the United States, completed its fourth, and most successful session this summer, according to William F. Gloason '50, one of the administrators of the program...
With the common interest as a starting point, the Seminar then strives toward a double goal. First, the Seminar tries to counter the effects of such poor sources of information as the movies, it tries to help the participants to understand America as it really...
Secondly, through their common desire to study America the students find themselves drawn together in such a way that tends to break down so-call national barriers. In working together to understand America, they are better able to understand each other...
Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper led with her chin, bravely recorded the result: "When I wrote that I didn't understand why Louis Calhern and Nina Foch wanted to do King Lear on Broadway," she reported, "I got the following note from James T. Burns Jr. of Columbia University: 'The reason artists like Calhern and Foch choose to star in Lear instead of staying in California to portray defunct cattle barons and brilliantined cuties is approximately the same reason a gifted writer would prefer to become a Wolcott Gibbs instead of a Hedda Hopper...
...House of Lords, the Marquess of Salisbury, present head of the great house of Cecil-spoke memorable words on the West's attitude toward Asian Communism. Said he: "I understand that our recognition of [the Chinese Communist] government has conferred no advantages on our traders, whom it was mainly intended to help . . . The impression is given . . . that India intends to adopt a detached attitude and act as an honest broker between the two parties. My Lords, it is impossible to act as an honest broker between right and wrong...