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...something resembling this revolutionary mystique that Stokely Carmichael and a few others are trying to impose on the Amerian Negro movement. Mixed with the anarchical slogans of "Burn, baby, burn!" and "Tear down the courthouses," there is a calculated conviction that violence is above all else a language, and that this language, through fear, will persuade white society to give things to the Negro that it would not otherwise give. Says Lester Mc-Kinney, Washington head of S.N.C.C.: "In the minds of the people, history has proved that any meaningful social change has come through a bloody revolution." Many Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

What is "appropriate"? A cookbook of early Amerian recipes set in the Baskerville type of the colonial period is appropriate. The cover of a brochure for modern Knowles furniture which destroys our perception of the letter K and transforms it into a bending dynamic structure is appropriate. The NH symbol on a New Haven railway car, though it can be perceived in several ways (for example, with the figure-ground relationships of the letters changing), nevertheless strongly resists abstraction into its component parts. For a whizzing box car, that is appropriate...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Communications Through Typography | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...American history professor here say that 95 percent of the students admitted to Harvard have had Amerian history in one form or another. "Many courses besides those in the field teach history," he added. "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Professors Hit Argument Am. History Should Be Compulsory | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

Record freight loading in 1926 was reported by the Amerian Railway Association. The number of cars loaded was 53,309,644, an increase of 4.1% over 1925, the best previous year. Loading of revenue freight exceeded 1,000,000 cars in 27 separate weeks' in 1926, the largest number of such weeks ever reported (seven more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...That the president has strongly maintained party principles is shown by (1) his foreign policy as exemplified by (a) diplomatic appointments-Public Opinion, April 6, 1889; Boston Evening Journal, July 3, 1889. (b) Pan Amerian Congress, N. Y. Mail in P. O. October 5, 1889. (c) Samoan settlement-Nation, June 20, 1889. (b) Behring Sea fishery question-Boston Morning Journal, August 10. (2) his domestic policy as exemplified by (a) territorial appointments-Baltimore American in P. O. March 16, 1889; lowa State Register in P. O. March 30, 1889. (b) Indian question-Phil. Ledger in P. O. March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 10/30/1889 | See Source »

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