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Many of Seeger's political views were molded at Harvard, where he was a student from 1936 to 1938. Surveying his career at the University, he recalls, "I got so interested in the Harvard Student Union that I had no time for my studies. The Union had all kinds of...

Author: By John R. Adler and Paul S. Cowan, S | Title: The Incorrigible Optimist | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

There are even more serious criticisms against the Administration. Its refusal to act in the face of increasingly mounting evidence that we are falling dangerously behind is worse than folly. For either it is ignorant of our true position or merely chooses to disregard the dangers. In either case, it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missile Morass | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

With Jason Robards Jr. impressive as a collapsing standard bearer for his era and vocation, and with George Grizzard excellent as the younger writer, the main narrative has many moments, such as Halliday's proud roll call of Jazz Age names, that are vibrantly nostalgic, as it has others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Ireland, in the view of Mayo-born Novelist George Moore, was "a fatal disease" from which "it is the plain duty of every Irishman to disassociate himself." To the waspish eye of Novelist Honor Tracy, herself part Irish, Ireland is less a disease than a delusion. Its inhabitants live as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bitch of Ballyknock | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

In 1950, tasting catastrophe, he warned of an "iron half-century" in which everything-"from television to partisanship, from jukeboxes to self-delusion"-must surrender to the "stern requirements of independence and survival." "All is lost." he cried at a 1954 New Year's party to a friend offering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Alsop's Foible | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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