Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gloucester is a good American town, the kind of town that hates anything too far out of its ken. Gloucester glared an American Gothic chagrin at 19th century religious mutants who sought to reform their church under the stern eye of local bigots and skeptics. These sectarians later became known as Unitarian Universalists and Christian Scientists, and the Gloucester people still chuckle at this historic yarn and shake their heads...
...Alper is now the man at the helm in Gloucester, the man of cast-iron holding fast to the wheel during a gale stirred by politics, business, and basic American principles. He's in an impossible position--as are all the critics of Moon and his associated business enterprises--because at every complaint about International Seafood's corporate advantages and "evil" connections, Barry may utter: "We have as much a right, as a tax-exempt institution, to invest in businesses. Why should we forfeit out Constitutional rights? Because we are 'Moonies?' Why did they call blacks 'niggers...
...would have required only a little forethought to coordinate professorial leaves of absence with the teaching needs of the department. As for the reputed paucity of Harvard-quality American history teachers, we ask the administration why it frequently refuses tenure to junior faculty members who are often the best teachers in a department--and why, in all the United States of America, the Harvard History Department can't find a teacher or two who would meet its Olympian standards of teaching excellence...
This year American history concentrators are stuck with a choice of courses that is simply unfair. Given the situation, the History Department should be especially flexible in accepting courses outside the department for fulfillment of concentration requirements...
...most of his 17 years in the Senate, Kennedy has led the Democratic Party and what is left of American liberalism. In pursuing landmark progressive legislation such as the 18-year-old vote, national health insurance, gun control and merger regulation, among a galaxy of others, he has demonstrated the intellectual, political and oratorical skills that will make him an effective president, as well as a dedication unsurpassed in the Senate...