Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite evident that the American electorate has chosen a typical "New Deal" Congress to represent us in Washington. It is also quite evident that the same American electorate desires more and more socialistic legislation...
...that all those developments have been simply copied from extreme-left Paris papers which have taken me as their favorite aim because my political action up to May last proved a stumbling block to their policy of surrender in North Africa. I feel it is a pity that an American magazine should think it fit to feed its readers that sort of unwholesome stuff. What, may I ask, would America and indeed the whole free world gain if Algeria fell into the hands of anti-Western fanatics...
...nation's struggle between racial rights and wrongs: ¶In Pittsburgh's Beechview section, where Negro Charles Miller's new home was smeared and smashed by race baiters, white neighbors finished a repair and repaint job with materials bought by the Board of Trade, Lions Club, American Legion and other civic groups. ¶ Georgia's Governor-elect Ernest Vandiver warned that he would close Atlanta schools if they were integrated by pending court cases, was met by Atlanta Mayor William Berry Hartsfield's demand that the city have the option between integration or no school...
...projects range throughout the curriculum, from American studies to Zoology. This year, for example, papers are being written on such diverse subjects as the later poetry of Yeats, the sociological and psychological aspects of war, Central Rhodesian federation, Karl Kraus (a Viennese journalist), and Morroccan nationalism; one Scholar is writing short stories. As Yale sorely lacks a plethora of creative writing courses, many prospective writers have taken advantage of the program to test their capabilities; in fact, there have usually been more than one creative writer in the program...
According to Sewall, the Scholars of the House program is part of the present tendency in American education to encourage and foster independence and initiative in college students. The program is based on the theory that, for those students with exceptional ability and maturity, "nothing short of a maximum challenge will evoke a maximum response...