Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such material contributes much to understanding America today . . . The separation of one age group of our society (youth) from the realities of current American life by undue confinement to a curriculum that tends to be static may account for the inability of many adults to cope with current conditions...
TIME Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled this account of how the Russians' steady, day-after-day squeeze was working in Berlin...
...count of times and days," and after bringing home their load of men, collapsed in sleep and never recaptured a clear remembrance of their work. But British Naval Analyst A. D. Divine (who skippered the yawl Little Ann in the great evacuation) has tried to collect every available account, and to place each one in its proper place within the great, overall story. He has succeeded so brilliantly that Dunkirk takes a place among the most exciting records of heroism in World...
...courage, the warm heart-and the poor judgment-of one brand of U.S. liberalism. All Our Years, his expectantly awaited autobiography ("some 23 publishers have expressed a blind but generous faith in this book"), is chiefly important as a record of his personal decency and kindliness. It is the account of a great good will expansive enough to regard even U.S. Communists as well-intentioned...
...famed Hull House in Chicago, but his recollections are those of a friendly, casual onlooker instead of the devoted worker he was. He aided all sorts of liberal causes as writer, speaker and organizer, usually with more energy and enthusiasm than his petition-signing, hat-passing colleagues, but this account of his impulsive championship of the underdog reads like a genial assurance that he couldn't say no in a good cause...