Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family walks on American soil hopefully, but always with the small secret fear that it is treading quicksand. A name change may spell assimilative success, but Stein recognizes that it also contains a rueful hint of cultural extinction. This is not to suggest that Enter Laughing is a social document, but merely that its solid sense of social place and time (the Depression) gives an evening of frequently paralyzing laughter an element of true comic bite...
...cultural freedom in the Soviet Union. A headline in The New York Times of November 29 reported "Easing of Curbs on Soviet Literature Is Attributed to Order by Khurshchev." Hayward and Leopold Labedz proclaimed in their introduction to the Praegar translation that One Day "is a revolutionary document that will effect the climate of life inside the Soviet Union...
...resolution, which needs only Senate approval, would provide for the printing of information already compiled by the Library of Congress on the 12,033 jobs college students held during the summer of '61. Jobs would be classified in the proposed Senate document according to department and job description. Location and number of positions available would also be listed...
...South, 25 years before the Civil War, began to make arbitrary arrests and to stamp out other civil liberties in its efforts to preserve slavery. Northern opinion turned abolitionist. Instead of welcoming the converts, Garrison quarreled with them. While other abolitionists interpreted the Constitution as an anti-slavery document,* Garrison denounced the Constitution as a "covenant with death," and in the most theatrical gesture of his career burned a copy of it at a mass meeting. "By 1837," writes Thomas, "antislavery had reached a crossroad. One road led into the broad highway of American political reform . . . that connected with...
...Left has not been silent on domestic issues. Michael Harrington's important document, and Goodman, according to Schlesinger, writes "vaguely of diversifying and decentralizing our economy." But radicalism in general, and student radicalism in particular, has not provided the searching thought on crucial domestic problems the country needs from its dissident intellectuals. Nor has it provided the public support many of the Administration's progressive welfare measures could use very well in Congress...