Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agha's doctorate is a courtesy title conferred upon him in Berlin, where doctors are as common as colonels in Kentucky. A famed photographer and storyteller, he also plays chess extremely well, for a man without a beard. Outwardly he is as hard-boiled as a Hemingway hero, underneath as sentimental. Symbol of his wry self-depreciation of arts at which he excels is his poem, The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer...
World War I drove Charles Austin Beard, dean of U. S. historians, from the faculty of Columbia University. He was then militantly anti-German and prowar, but in October 1917 he resigned from the University because it had fired Pacifists James McKeen Cattell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana. Said he: "The University is ... under the control of a small and active group of trustees who . . . are reactionary and visionless in politics and narrow and medieval in religion...
Last week World War II brought venerable white-haired, deaf Charles Beard back to Columbia. Still peppery but now a pacifist, Dr. Beard last week was one of the most convinced and outspoken isolationists in the U. S. Accepting a job as visiting professor from President Nicholas Murray Butler, to whom he gave his resignation 22 years ago, Dr. Beard said: "What is past is past," began to teach a seminar of graduate students "The Concept of Democracy in American Political Thought...
...course, the third possibility to be considered-that the Embargo will be abolished and no legislation enacted to take its place. In that case the United States would have to depend on International Law to protect its neutrality; what is International law has best been described by Charles A. Beard-"a veritable jumble of claims, assertions . . . and hot contentions." These then are the bare facts. In themselves they point in no definite direction, yet they must underlie any valid opinion on the neutrality issue...
...Beard makes it clear that modern boyhoods are no match for his, but he is far from thinking that modern youngsters are going to the dogs. The wiry 89-year-old declares his favorite remark applies as well to the present generation as to any of its predecessors: "I'd rather be an American boy," says old Dan Beard, "than President of the United States, or anything else in the world...