Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S PRESS EDITOR GIVES EXCELLENT ACCOUNT NEWSPRINT-HUNGRY FLEET STREET [TIME, DEC. 15] BUT ERRS GRIEVOUSLY IN SWEEPING STATEMENT "U.S. NEWS RARELY MAKES THE FRONT PAGES UNLESS IT IS SUCH MUSICOMEDY STUFF AS THE 'HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS."' IN 78 ISSUES OF THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED BETWEEN SEPT. 11 AND DEC. 10 AMERICAN NEWS APPEARED ON FRONT PAGE ON 71 DIFFERENT DAYS. SOMETIMES THERE WERE SEVERAL AMERICAN STORIES ON FRONT PAGE. . . . HARDLY ANY OF THEM DEALT WITH THE HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS...
...plan, considerably expanded and revised since its germ was first proposed by Secretary Marshall at Harvard last June, took into account the use of Western Europe's last unexpended cash & credits, and the possibility of aid from other sources. But it frankly recognized that the U.S. would have to pay most of the bill. Its main points...
Such an approach may be soul-satisfying to the magazine's sponsors; but it is doubtful if it will attract any readers who do not already agree with the premises assumed by the AYD. Geoff White and Bill Labov in their misleading account of the Club 100 incident of last year go out of their way to take a slap at clubmen: "The club men form a very definite class of dwindling importance at Harvard, who only occasionally come out of their isolated routine to demonstrate their vicious and decayed mentalities." This same article demonstrates the authors' impatience and scorn...
Harvard once had a mechanism which helped the student to integrate the superficially unrelated mass of facts which he accumulates in the course of four years into a meaningful body of knowledge, and which took into account the differences in training and ability of individual students. That mechanism is known as Tutorial. Now tutorial--once the distinguishing feature of a Harvard education--is on the defensive. It's the exception rather than the rule. The genuine scholar, if he uses good judgment in choosing his courses and in going beyond the required minimum of work in order to organize...
...Patton's own War As I Knew It was much better written, naturally more authoritative, a rich mine of precepts-into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that was a reproof to postwar disillusionment. Other solid achievements: the first two volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's massive History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Professor William Langer's approving examination of Our Vichy Gamble, Major General John Deane...