Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading the University in total enrollment for the second year is Humanities 7. Taught by William Alfred, professor of English and author of the Broadway play Hogan's Goat, the course contrasts British and American plays of the last 20 years with those of Sartre, Beckett, lonesco and some early Greek playwrights. Hum 7 dropped from a high of 945 students last year to 736 for this term, though it is still easily in the lead...
Speaking at a testimonial dinner here, Agnew said that American views on the war are being greatly distorted. He gave a list of signs which he said indicated progress...
...memorial park, located on the site of the DuBois family homestead just north of the town, was and is the subject of a heated controversy among the town's residents. The John Birch Society, the American Legion, and the Daughters of the American Revolution bitterly opposed the creation of the park. They said they were opposed because DuBois was a member of the Communist Party the last years of his life...
...DuBois. a lifelong socialist, at 93 joined the Panty, renounced his American citizenship, and emigrated to Ghana where he died two years later...
Bond went on to say that DuBois' joining the Communist Party was "more an expression of disgust at American social practices than of attraction for communist ideology. We live in a country whose economic philosophy is socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor; a country which annually gives farmers thousands of dollars for not producing crops, yet which will not give a family on welfare enough to live decently." Bond said...