Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly outstanding; but its deficiencies are less his than those of the movement and the life which he writes about. The paucity of thought and craftsmanship which mark the novels of Beatland (On The Road is the bible of this pagan country) betray the trivial superstructure which American beats have errected upon a set of basic and simple propositions about the society they reject and the values they seek to transcend. In short, the beat generation is a barren subject-matter, and the more one has to say about it, the more one becomes repetitious, boring, and obnoxious...
Easy Living concerns the escapades of two American expatriates who sleep in or about Paris and London. One, a bastard named only Wyeth, moves from bed to bed, uncaring and undiscriminating, seeking only to assuage a deep-down itch. His friend, Harry Steiner, is escaping from his middle-class Bronx past, from the squares back home, from his own terrible insecurity. They dig the easy life, the life of least resistance, the life of escape via jazz, junk, drink...
Closing a varied career, Col. Armstrong will add to his teaching experience when he goes to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., starting next fall. There he will head the junior ROTC program and teach American history. He has also taught Social Sciences at West Point and war planning at the Army War College...
...anxious to have English 10 or its equivalent required of all concentrators again, but the skip-stop survey it afforded students has not been replaced with a course of similar range and viewpoint. Non-concentrators are now inclined to take survey courses in American literature, which are abounding, rejecting English literature as too specialized...
...role, as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, in undermining the 1957 disarmament talks has not yet been publicized, though there is every indication that he was the man most responsible for turning American policy into an unnegotiable sham. The frauds which he consistently practiced on the American public in the fields of fallout danger and of test detection capabilities have not yet been exposed. While the committee has concentrated on some of his more blatant failures in Executive-Legislative liason, it has left untouched his record as a creature of the Strategic Air Command in the Oppenheimer case...