Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Linnean Street is not alone in his protest against modern morals. His finely phrased complaints strike at the heart of what is no small problem on the modern American scene. But articulate observers have seldom been more than articulate, and idealists and social reformers meet complete indifference far more often than opposition. The janitor is no exception. His protests are voiced again and again to various passers-by, and met with a smile, a smirk, a subdued laugh...
...firmly believe that the imposition of these two oaths, but particularly the disclaimer clause, strongly infers, first, that American institutions of higher learning have not fulfilled their centuries-old responsibility to select and and support students of loyalty and integrity, and second, that American college students, as a group, are particularly suspect of disloyalty as opposed to the general citizenry...
...pity that the French were the first to attempt an adaptation of Arthur Miller's controversial play The Crucible. The Salem witch trials, conducted in the severe Calvinistic atmosphere of colonial New England, represent an American aberration that Director Raymond Rouleau and his forces do not sufficiently comprehend. The fact that the good people of Salem talk French, and that the town itself is depicted as the type of medieval slum most often found in realist movies throws the entire production almost irretrievably off balance...
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. A challenging study of what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, notably, the lack of a clear American public philosophy...
...Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The All-American girl is back with a couple of world champions from widely varied weight classes-Ingemar Johansson and Gwen Verdon. Color...