Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting aspect of the drive was the failure of contributors to specify individual charities on their donations. Only $122 was designated for special use, most of it going to the American Friends Service Committee. PBH was the leading charity designated at Harvard...
...inclined to agree that when the American public finds out who the great They is, upon whom all the jokes are played and by whom all decisions are made, the dilemma of our national neuroticism will be dissolved...
...their case did not elicit more sympathy in the United States. The principles for which they fight, self-determination and freedom from colonial rule, have in the past been pre-eminently associated with the U.S., they argue. They are fond of drawing parallels between the eighteenth-century struggle of Americans to throw off British rule and their own efforts today. They strongly resent American use of the word "terrorists" to refer to EOKA, declaring that this group is the Cypriot equivalent of our own "Minute...
...current UN debate is concerned, Greece has given up hope of explicit U.S. support, and simply asks that we remain truly neutral. She is not primarily concerned about our own vote on the matter, but worries lest we try to pressure Latin American countries into backing a resolution favorable to Britain--as the English, of course, want...
...failure to have a course in Western history is indeed unfortunate. While Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis may not be in current vogue in the History Department, anyone interested in American history should be familiar with the Westward Movement. The influence of the frontier certainly did have a profound effect on American history; but many history concentrators graduate unaware of this fact. Several years ago a course was given on the literature of the West and South; it was also discontinued. At present, there is no course for those interested in either the Westward Movement or in the cultural history...