Word: americans
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Chemistry 1 and English 7 (American Literature from the Beginning to the Present) also failed to retain their positions in the top ten. Listed seventh and ninth a year ago, they have slipped to twelfth and sixteenth...
Barnes was sent to North Africa in the first American fighter group to fly support for General Montgomery. He flew 66 missions before being shot down and captured over Tunis. He tried to escape and nearly succeeded--disguised as an Arab, with blackened face and dirty blanket, he managed to get by one German patrol before taking refuge in "a hole at El Hama." There, he says, "I made a poor choice of Arab friends, and one of them turned me over to the Italians. They tried me as a spy before the high command while the British were shelling...
They finally decided not to, and Barnes was sent to a German prison camp at Sagan. With the support of the senior American officer, he tried to counter-act Nazi propaganda by teaching a course in American institutions and organizing a mock election. "It was very significant to note that the difference in the prisoners' ability to make something out of the experience was not social or economic background, but education." The prison camp marked the beginning, Barnes says, of his great interest in education...
...addition to the School Committee campaign, Barnes says he is "really excited" about Latin-American legal relations. "The idea of One America is more than just political talk. It is important to reconcile our concept of the government under law with the Latin American idea of law as what the government says...
...decent and dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...