Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Revolutionary War," says Lloyd. "I did my thesis on England and America during that period, studying the emergence of the politics of opinion. People in comparative government often mistake Europe for the world. And area scholars often ignore the wider issues. In India, you can see the classic problems of Western institutions unfolding in a non-Western culture. So, you might say, I was fortunate in marrying my wife...
...come to realize that the only real hope lies in President Eisenhower's defense-reorganization plan for strengthening unified lines of command. "It's got to come," said a top NORAD officer last week. "We've got to have it-and this place is a classic example of the need...
...Tycoon. To his Nevada neighbors, E. L. Cord is the Democratic state senator from Esmeralda County, where jack rabbits outnumber the 430 registered voters. But in other parts of the U.S., Cord's name has other meanings. Automobile buffs remember the Cord 812, with its front drive, its classic lines and its $2,395 price tag* as one of the finest U.S. cars ever produced. Wall Street remembers Cord as the golden negotiator and operating man who put the Auburn Automobile Co. in the black, and held substantial interests in American Airways, Lycoming Manufacturing, New York Shipbuilding and Stinson...
...shut down brothels after World War II, it merely found itself confronted with a sudden rash of "Bath and Massage Clinics." Now much the same story seemed to take place again. Outside New Delhi's Parliament building 75 sari-clad young women protested to M.P.s, in a classic argument used by shady ladies everywhere, that to close red-light districts would be to make respectable women prey to "sex-starved people like bachelors, widowers and the like...
Young Wisconsin Lawyer Haskell could fight-and write. He played a distinguished personal part in repe ling Pickett's Charge, and weeks later, the fever of battle still hot in him, he wrote his account of Gettysburg. It is the classic of its kind. Previously snatched up in limited editions as a buff's bonanza, and quoted by virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness...