Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that little old history course," Delwood told his electric blanket. "Can't go through Harvard without seeing good old Schlesinger, big name you know." The blanket didn't know. "History 169, that's it." He leafed through the catalogue again, stopping at page 206. "American Intellectual History, 1789 to Present, MWF at 12, great, just great, can't wait to hear li'l Artie." Another notation...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Litauer Professor of Political Economy, last night called Professor Slichter "one of the really top economists in the world and probably the leading economist on labor problems in this country." Harris said Slichter was "probably listened to by the average American more than any other living economist...
Sometime this week, a committee from the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors will see President Pusey to inquire whether he favors the University's continued participation in the loan program now that Senator Kennedy's bill to remove the loyalty oath has failed...
...power personal diplomacy, not as a panacea, but as a reasonable method of exchanging views and "reducing tensions," to use a favorite Khrushchev phrase. The concept of the Big Two sitting at a table deciding the fate of smaller nations may not sit well in anti-monopolistic American stomachs, but it is more than reasonable to assume that any Eisenhower-Khrushchev agreement would exert a rather compelling influence on other, lesser powers...
...essayist proceeds however to draw some intriguing but quite probably specious conclusions about the mental state of today's American youth, its confusion over a double moral standard: the hedonistic view of the individual versus the Victorian ethos of the community. The essayist exhorts all future writers of Harvard Square sex-fiction to probe more deeply into the unhappiness which is the apparent outcome in most of the stories under discussion, and come up with a moral framework which is bigger, better and all in all more valid than that which exists or is in the process of ceasing...