Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Taft in feeling that I would not want to make an absolute rule . . . There are situations in which it would be better to let a Communist keep his [teaching] job than to disrupt the whole fabric of academic freedom." But if a Communist brought his politics into the classroom, that was something else again. The trouble with all these investigations, Hicks continued, is that the emphasis always falls on "how much" the Communists have infiltrated American colleges. It might be better, said he, to emphasize "how little . . . The fear in this country is in part a very real...
Cold Steel & Cowardice. When the math lesson ended, Giuseppe put his hand on the bulge in his pocket and left the classroom. Out in the corridor, Professor Modugno leaned against the door to light a cigarette. Giuseppe calmly took aim and tired three shots which hit his teacher in the right lung, the skull and the groin After giving himself up, he said he had planned to kill himself too, but decided it would be cowardly...
Shoot to Kill. Ex-Harvard President Conant could not have picked a livelier classroom for his introduction to cold-war diplomacy, nor a fitter place for his first recitation. Day & night, the German Communists were drawing tighter 'their noose around West Berlin and piling up fresh woes for doughty Mayor Ernst Reuter's West Berlin government. Last week they finished building concrete molehills across the streets leading from the East to the Western sectors. The people's police got orders to shoot to kill at border crossers, and diligently complied. Three cars carrying refugees from the East...
William Withers, former professor of Economics at Columbia, testified to the Senate group that the Communist teachers he knew of were most dangerous outside the classroom and that they "had ruined" the lives of at least 30 students...
...Alemán which bore such an odd resemblance to Joseph Stalin (see cut) that the sculptor had to do some retouching. Within the grounds a shell-roofed cosmic-ray laboratory shows the functional influence; translucent marble towers follow the "international" style of French architect Le Corbusier; glass-studded classroom cupolas renew the familiar form of the Spanish colonial. But all bear-in color, in texture, in decoration or design-the authentic Aztec mark of Mexico...