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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, nearly all the Amherst-bred teachers voiced enthusiasm for their jobs. Reason: "A tremor of excitement coming from the secondary schools." With curriculums in ferment across the country, "notes of boyish idealism" were not uncommon among men in their 505. They forecast exciting opportunities in TV courses, team teaching, counseling. They urged Amherst students to enter a profession "on the way up," suggested that Amherst could thereby help "deflate the grey-flannel success myth" prevalent at "provincial" Ivy League colleges. One prep-school teacher asked: "What other job would pay me to play squash every afternoon? In what other...
Concluded the Alumni News: "Only a very few are thinking about getting out, yet only a few are smugly satisfied. There is, among these teachers, something of the attitude of the pioneer, of adventure rather than calculation. Many seem to have a conviction that there are worlds to conquer, and that, for the first time, there are means at hand to conquer them...
...experts, said that Citizen Porcella was not listed as a first-rate expert, or even as a second-rate one. A Chicago art dealer named Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore identified as "one of the great undiscovered American painters." Normally, these would be major art finds, which would set every major U.S. museum scrambling. There has been no scramble...
With the boss's boy leading the way, others among Russia's leading journalists got the idea, began breaking old molds. In an unprecedented gesture, Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta last week agreed to run a 1,100-word letter from U.S. Author Charles Neider, defending The Autobiography of Mark Twain, which he edited, against a hostile review in the Russian literary journal...
DRUG PRICE INVESTIGATION is planned by Tennessee's Democratic U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver as chairman of antitrust subcommittee. The subcommittee will examine competitive practices among the drug manufacturers to see whether similar prices are come about by accident or by design...