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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chattanooga Times spoke the concern of many a Southerner: "[Picky Pie] Hill was murdered, but it is the South which again was lynched in the unreasoning fury of a cowardly mob." There was some question whether it was actually the act of a mob (see above). But inevitably, the report of the year's first lynching* attracted wide attention in the nation's press, obscuring the slower, less spectacular but undeniable improvement in the Negro's lot in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Better Element | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Heads Against the Wall? Washington believed that the story in U.N. World was based on a plant, probably by the Polish or Czech delegation at U.N. Its purpose: to help persuade U.S. opinion that the Atlantic pact was unnecessary. The Atlantic pact is still a great concern of Russian propagandists; a recent Krokodil cartoon showed Uncle Sam launching human torpedoes-Winston Churchill and John Foster Dulles-from a submarine labeled Atlantic Pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Optimism, Ltd. | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...long as a work of art is not conscious propaganda, its criticism must be amoral. The criterion should be: is this a sensitive and powerful expression of the artist's feeling? Right, wrong, social value, middle-class morality etc. should never enter into artistic criticism. Granted, artists are deeply concerned with moral issues: their concern should not concern us expect insofar as it contributes to the aesthetic value. "Forever Amber" and "Shore Leave" can and should be condemned only from this aesthetic standpoint, any other criticisms must be recognized as moral ones. Morality is the brass knuckles of artistic criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aesthetics: Brass Knucks | 6/2/1949 | See Source »

Loyalty oaths on the campus have been the concern of three Southern state legislatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' Pledge Readied in Texas, Passed in Okla. | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

With Josiah Holbrook's example in mind, 28 well-known U.S. men & women had started a new organization called the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools. Some of the problems with which the commission will concern itself, and try to concern others, are overcrowded classrooms, the shortage of trained teachers, the millions of children who are getting substandard schooling and the confusion in educational goals. The worst problem of all, in the commission's view: in spite of all the efforts of the parent-teacher associations, the public is still doing too little to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: By & For the Public | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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