Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to help combat the menace...
...Harvard tutorial system represents only an attempt to combat the impersonality of the University, it is partially successful. If tutorial, particularly sophomore group tutorial, restricted its activities to sociological therapy, its present organizational scheme might be justifiable. As part of the process of Harvard education, however, sophomore group tutorial is a failure...
...Germany's Ludwig Beethoven the answer to Memphis' "Menace," Elvis Presley? For two enlightened Yalemen's answer to this epic question, see EDUCATION, Combat the Menace...
...placard on the counter of the Manhattan music store of Carl Fischer, Inc. was modest enough in size, but the slogan it bore was a call to arms. "COMBAT THE MENACE!" it read. "GET YOUR LUDWIG BUTTON.'' The menace: none other than Rock 'n' Roller Elvis Presley. The Ludwig: a composer with the last name of Beethoven. Last week Ludwig van Beethoven was the center of one of the fastest-growing fan clubs in the nation...
...Government Issue influence doesn't stop at this, though. The story is told of a somewhat drunken soldier, A.W.O.L., who took the wrong subway, and found himself in Harvard Square. A week unshaven, with uncut hair, wearing combat boots, olive drab pants, a khaki shirt and a combat jacket, he was stumbling around Arrow Street when two Radcliffe would-be bohemians found him and brought him to the Capriccio because they thought he must be an avant-garde poet...