Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Either under the control of the United Nations or of an independent, non-profit group, such an international civil service could attract the top men in diverse fields by offering them continuity in assistance programs and an esprit de corps comparable perhaps to the Foreign Legion. Of course, the concepts of an international group administering aid programs implies a loss of national control which is likely to be offensive to American officials. If the new corps is to gain American acceptance, it will probably have to sacrifice some of its desire for continuity in assistance projects by hiring itself...
When this study was commissioned five years ago, many people felt that academic freedom meant 'civil liberties for professors.' In those difficult days, before the McCarthy censure and the 1954 elections, many liberals saw the Fund as one of their few wealthy friends. They felt that its funds should not be wasted on the collection of statistics when more pressing problems of human rights demanded redress...
This, then, is not a book about academic freedom so much as about the academic world. Its value is not as a weapon in the arsenal of civil liberties, but as a first step towards understanding the academic mind.ROBERT M. HUTCHINS...
...House Speaker Sam Rayburn (''When you get these two men together with the power of making committee assignments, you see the obsequious bowing, scraping Senators and Congressmen around them"); 2) the oil depletion allowance ("a terrific tax handout and giveaway"); 3) Johnson's talents for civil rights compromise ("Effective civil rights legislation is impossible"). Then Proxmire, a Harvard Business School graduate ('40), blamed Johnson for keeping him off the Senate Finance Committee despite repeated requests, noted sarcastically that the Committee would, of course, deal with oil depletion...
...Sonny Boy Williams, some of whose songs he intends to record without changes. In an evangelist church, Belafonte heard a preacher singing, "I'm a soldier of the Lord!" He took the "traditional answer and call" of the song, grafted them on to the lyrics of a Civil War song, Oh! Freedom, and is presenting the results in an album called My Lord, What a Morning. He has recorded rum drinkers in Haiti, "things I heard with Memphis Slim and Lead Belly," a railroad gang in the Florida Everglades...