Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Historian Boorstin bases his cultural history of the U.S. on what is home-grown American rather than what was modified from European life. The "booster" who followed the pioneer westward and developed the country is his hero; his villain the Southern planter, who borrowed all of English agrarian life and needed slaves to make it work...
Representing Harvard in Providence were Daniel C. Goldfarb Jr. '66, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council; John C. Youngs '66, vice-president of the HUC; and Michael E. Abram '66, chairman of the Harvard Policy Committee...
This exchange began on August 24 when Daniel S. Horgan, DPW chief engineer, told Rudolph that "if it is your intent to do experimental pavement markings, a written request with sketches for a permit should be submitted to this Department for approval...
...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE by Daniel J. Boorstin. 517 pages. Random House...
...What then is the American, this new man?" Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville asked the question, historians have been trying to provide an answer-sometimes political (Clinton Rossiter), sometimes economic (Charles A. Beard), sometimes sociocultural (Perry Miller). Latest to make the attempt is Daniel Boorstin, Harvard-trained professor of American history at the University of Chicago, who acknowledges many centers of motivation, supplements his studies with insights drawn from psychology, sociology, political science, economics and literary criticism...