Word: direct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Direct Approach. In Samalayuca, Mexico, six ingenious prisoners escaped by pushing down the jail walls...
...government of Provisional President Romulo Betancourt, confident of Acción Democrática,'s strength, had taken pains to make the voting fair, and even the opposition was hard put to find grounds for charging fraud. Previous presidents had been chosen by Congress. Gallegos was elected by direct popular ballot, and every Venezuelan over 18 had the right to vote...
Each of the three stories is at least as good and as readable as any that have appeared in the Advocate since the war. "What a Man Has to Do," by Harold Fleming, is a restrained tale of violence and race hatred that has no direct message. Prejudice and hate press harder and harder on Berry, the Negro Army sergeant, until he "flies apart like the works of an over wound clock." This is a real short story, so seldom seen hitherto around here, with real characters in real situations...
...Harvard, who only occasionally come out of their isolated routine to demonstrate their vicious and decayed mentalities." This same article demonstrates the authors' impatience and scorn for any methods of reform which do not embody publicity, action, and conflict. Their abhorrence of "evil" is admirable; but the emphasis on "direct action" leads to the suspicion that AYDers are not such masters of practical politics as is implied by the editorial in the "New Student...
...quoted reason for retaining the lecture system is that it offers students an opportunity to come into direct contact with "great minds." But pitifully few lecturers fall into that category; and all seem to be increasingly concerned with the recitation of factual data. The amount of personal contact between student and lecturer in a large lecture course is negligible. One of the most outstanding facts about the lecture system is its impersonalized, off-hand method of presentation. Except as far as they are restrained by a rather fluid attendance requirement, students can take lectures or leave them. Undergraduates walk into...