Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking greyer and more gravelly than ever, Frank Costello, 71, learned that the U.S. has every intention of giving him the boot-right back to his native Cosenza on Italy's instep. The gangland chieftain was stripped of his citizenship in 1959 after a U.S. district judge ruled that the onetime rumrunner and kewpie-doll salesman had been naturalized fraudulently in 1925. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan has turned down his attempt to upset a deportation order. Rasped Costello: "Italy is O.K. to visit but not to live in too long...
...embraced another religion. That definition would include the Orthodox Jew that Oswald Rufeisen was at birth; but it excludes Father Daniel, the Carmelite friar that Rufeisen became after his conversion to Catholicism. Since his arrival in 1959, Father Daniel has refused to accept citizenship except as a Jewish immigrant, and thus automatically an Israeli citizen under the 1950 Law of Return...
...Committee cannot consider Gen Ed without considering such questions as whether its function is to impart culture, or a respect for a rational approach to the world, or a knowledge of Western (or even Eastern) institutions, or a belief in service, or good citizenship, or even just the capacity to cultivate one's garden. And it must consider whether these questions mean anything, and how far they overlab, and how much Harvard needs in the future to be concerned with any of them...
...original intent of general education was to prepare men for citizenship by making them aware of their common cultural heritage. Through required courses in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, students would become acquainted with disciplines other than their own, and would be the richer as individuals, no matter what their ocupation. This idea was embodied in the 1945 report of the Conant Committee on General Education, General Education in a Free Society. Known as the Redbook, the report served as a model for general education programs at colleges across the country...
...persecute you." But in the minds of Dr. King and the Southern Negro these words have become more than ethical commands; they are the core of a philosophy of nonviolent protest which has enabled the Negro to fight for dignity and the rights of first-class citizenship with a creative power and grace...