Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born three decades ago in Boston, Ciardi spent his undergraduate years in Bates and Tufts, and then moved out to Michigan for his M. A. in English. There, in 1939, "I suddenly found myself very rich" when "Homeward to America," a book of verse, won the annual Hopwood prize and was accepted for publication...
While in Missouri, where he returned briefly before coming to Harvard, Ciardi married a journalism teacher at KCU and started working with the Progressive Citizens of America, whose activities now take up much of his time. An executive member of the Massachusetts State Progressive Party, Ciardi believes that political issues are vital right here in the University. American colleges are on the road to a state of "military subsidization where there will be no freedom of speech and they won't be worth anything," be warns...
Therefore, America's problem in this respect will always be to maintain a correct balance between the two extremes. To achieve this desirable equilibrium, however, the present Central Intelligence Agency must be given much more power and independence than it has at the present time. Congressional investigations which will bathe the whole system in the killing light of publicity must be avoided. Instead, the Intelligence services and the State Department must quietly and efficiently combine to clean up and rebuild the faculty intelligence agency, which is essentially their responsibility. Unless the United States can renovate its outdated Intelligence immediately, more...
John O. Brew, present lecturer on Anthropology and one of the University's younger archaeologists, has been appointed to the directorship of Peabody Museum, America's oldest anthropological institute...
...regularly leafed through Southern history. As for Mamma, nothing cheered her so much as an American visitor. Writes daughter Anne: "She felt herself to be an island around which surged forty million incurious French. . . . When she spoke of herself as a Southerner, these foreigners understood her to mean South America and that was a bad start, so Mamma never brought the French into her universe and was never part of theirs." When she died in 1914 as the Germans advanced, "she took everything with her: the small safe world built around us by her love. A world where good children...