Word: authority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas Democrat also termed the loyalty oath amendments to the National Defense Education Act as "secondary to the main objective of the bill," and a necessary compromise to get it passed. He was co-author of the bill's college loan provisions...
...pleased. While the student avoids a potentially embarassing epousal of a cause, he is amply protected when on the attack, being free to concentrate on the weaknesses which can be found even in geniuses. The technique of isolating certain elements for criticism is never used to praise an author or defend a position, but is common when breaking down a work of art. Many students are more delighted to discover error than beauty, and find it difficult to counteract this when they have to sustain a long thesis that is something other than adverse criticism. Even the moderate position removes...
...Communism and Nationalism, Guber said, it is "founded on a large group of sources and literature; however, the interpretation by Professor Pipes of the most important stages of U.S.S.R. history was exposed by Soviet historians to decisive and fair criticism in the press, and even in meetings with the author in Moscow...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Into this skillfully woven basket of short stories, the author tenderly places seven "twisted apples"-the maimed, the infantile, the impotent-that have fallen from the tree of life...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. The hottest kitten yet to hit the author's typewriter keys...