Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mrs. Roosevelt sent off a second note: "This Eisler case seems a hard nut to crack. What do you suggest?" This brought another polite brush-off from Welles. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt, now busy with U.N. duties, told newsmen that she had never met Eisler and did not remember writing...
There are 947 students in the biggest class at Berkeley. This sheep-dip style of education encourages short cuts: mimeographed commercial lecture notes (Fybate Notes) sell like Books-of-the-Month on Berkeley's campus. California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A...
The archetype of Prussian character and statecraft, "Old Fritz" inspired Goethe, has been almost adored by a long line of German historians. Carlyle, Macaulay and Lytton Strachey wrote of him with fascination and even with admiration. Present-day scholarship has little to add to the full-dress biographies now in...
The story is a modern contest between good & evil, with Morgan acting as a kind of celestial scorekeeper. The chief character is a retired judge who is writing a book about Athens during its best days. A saintly Mr. Chips wrestling with the devil instead of the Lower Form, he...
The domestic issue was discrimination in the shape of quota systems and Jim Crow facilities. What would ordinarily have amounted to a simple conflict of attitude between white delegates became complicated by the easily exploitable character of the entire affair for such agitation groups as Young Progressive Citizens of America...