Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungry Angels. Against these men and their human machine stood great forces. One was the force symbolized by the U.S. Embassy. Italians like America; they have at least an inkling of what American democracy is about. How, then, were the Communists able to stand up against American influence? Partly it was America's own doing. The U.S. had never effectively advertised the nature or the extensive amount of its help, or the peaceful intentions of its purpose. Above all, the U.S. was remote and rich. The Communists adroitly played on these facts, and on Italy's fears...
Shortly before 1 p.m., a light rain swept across Bogotá, wetting the columns of the Capitolio. There the ninth International Conference of American States had been in session for a fortnight on matters of high moment to the hemisphere-the industrial upbuilding of Latin America, the problem of Communism in the Americas. As the rain began to fall, most meetings adjourned for lunch...
...rehearsal as a sweatered tyrant ("Don't spik! If you spik, I go!") who would exhaust them by demanding repetitions until his long-awaited "Vonnderful! Ah, vonnderful!" finally came. But they shared with him a fierce pride in their orchestra, which Bostonians-critics, musicians and public-regard as America's best. (Less partisan critics believe that the Boston and the Philadelphia are hard to choose between, with the New York Philharmonic a strong third...
...Chicago, the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America added up the educational achievements of its 41,682 entries. Conclusion: a man who went to a small college (enrollment below 300) is nearly four times as likely to make Who's Who as a man who went to a big one. In a preface, Novelist James M. Cain, a small-college man himself, thought he knew why. Who's Who had originally confined itself chiefly to "obscure clerics, do-gooders and professors." That policy was, he said, the way to win "the confidence of intellectuals...
...Christianity with which America is familiar is distorted, confused, and almost absurd." This sweeping charge is based on a study of 50 examination papers from a college sophomore class. Author of the study is the teacher of the class, writing anonymously in the current bi-monthly Religious Education. Almost all the students, says he, came from religious homes, had regularly attended Sunday school, and had just completed a semester's survey of religion which included five weeks of Bible study...