Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental purpose of American diplomacy at the present time is the promotion, advancement, and defense of national interest," said Charles A. Beard, famous Columbia professor, at a combined meeting of the History and Politics clubs held in Winthrop House Senior Common Room last night. Stating that it was impossible to find out what national interests are by any empirical study Mr. Beard went on to show what different statesmen have conceived them to be and what they might...
...these national interests. The difficulty with these however, is that they are often contradictory, and the national government makes no attempt as a private merchant would do to draw up some balance sheet and weigh the advantages and disadvantages. It is this idea of a balance sheet that Mr. Beard laid great stress upon...
...coming season. The picture in his dark, musty office has always been the same: Gatti settling his great bulk in a swivel chair, fumbling for the ribbon which holds his pince-nez, reading his announcement aloud in slow, painstaking English. When questions were asked, he would stroke his beard, answer warily or not at all. A grave "good afternoon" regularly closed each such session with the Press. Last week musical reporters were still awaiting their annual summons when Giulio Gatti-Casazza suddenly announced that this season would be his last as impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
...Cause, the first issue contained several readable articles by sympathetic oldsters. Venerable, profound Philosopher John Dewey began a discussion of Education and Social Reconstruction with a quotation from Amos 'n' Andy. Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild thwacked the New Deal - for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish...
...asked, and he said he was not. He was more afraid of me than I of him. His name was not Jones; he could think of no other at the moment. My question startled him, and his mouth fell open, increasing the horror of his face, the dirty beard, the haunted eyes, the filth, and the very long lower teeth. I felt great love for him, even though he was ugly with the vilest ugliness of man, ghastly sexual ugliness: anger, amazement, and the desire to kill or rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father...