Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through most of the campaign the Democrats had managed to keep matches away from their highly inflammable civil rights problem. But Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Mulholland Butler struck some huge sparks on ABC-TV's College News Conference. "Those in the South who are not deeply dedicated to the philosophies of the Democratic Party will have to go their own way," he snapped, "take political asylum where they can find it, either in the Republican Party or a third party." Within hours, the landscape was bright with rebel fireworks that would doubtless enliven Democratic politics down through...
California: The G.O.P. civil war promises Democratic victory: latest polls show once-popular liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, trailing considerably behind his Senate opponent, lesser-known northern California Congressman Clair Engle, 47, right-wing Democrat...
...year-old, slow-starting federal Civil Rights Commission ran up against its first Southern-built stone wall last week in Macon County, Ala., where Negroes outnumber whites 6-1, but white voters outnumber Negro voters 2-1. Assigned to gather evidence on complaints that the county board of registrars discriminated against Negroes in registering voters, two CRC agents went to the board's office in Tuskegee, asked to look at registration records. The board's Chairman Emmett P. Livingston telephoned Alabama's Attorney General John Patterson in Montgomery. Registration records are not public documents, ruled Patterson...
...tragic drama of Doctor Zhivago is that of an apostle of life, with a profound sense of its Christian sanctity, who is caught in the life-crushing and soul-destroying nightmare of revolution, civil war and tyranny. The poet-doctor is driven across the face of Russia, is loved by people who lose him, and greatly loves a woman named Lara whom he loses. A broken man, he finally dies of a heart attack after he steps off a Moscow streetcar...
This, in short, is the past-present, one which began with the Republic and which ended with the more rotund enormities of the Civil War period. Most of it, with its uncompromising verticality, its clinging ivy, its jutting, discreetly windows, survives in a comparatively limited area...