Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When educators like President Conant and General Dwight D. Eisenhower picked up their papers that afternoon, they could hardly recognize the statement they had helped to form. The newspapers and the wire services had all done the same thing. They had lifted one sentence from page 39 of the statement and "led" with it: "Members of the Communist Party of the United States should not be employed as teachers...
Judging from the liberal records of many of the Educational Policies Commission, the "20" had an entirely different idea of what they had done. All of them undoubtedly thought they were aiding academic freedom, not injuring it. First, they had established themselves on the "right side" by condemning Communist teachers. Once on the "right side," they thought their attacks on smear tactics would be heeded. Since they sincerely believed that Communists were "unfit" to teach, they felt they should say so if, in the process, "'investigations,' book-banning, and efforts at intimidation" of non-Communists be cut down...
...Home of the Brave" admits for the first time that there are in this country two classes of citizens, white and black, and that the black semi-citizens resent like hell being pushed around. Furthermore, they want something done about it--fast. But Negroes know that before they can be accepted as full citizens, they must first be recognized as real and complete human beings, with feelings that can be hurt and turned sour. Screen Plays Corporation and director Mark Robson set out to demonstrate this first truth without any mumbling or crossed fingers. What they want to show...
Cummings' fame rests on such books as Eimi and The Enormous Room and volumes of poetry written with the freakish punctuation and typography that have become his trademark. His sunny, splashy little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes are all done with slapdash delight; they have none of the sharpness or strangeness that make his books memorable, infuriating or a bore. Compared with his writings, Cummings' art seems as soft and wholesome as fresh butter...
...months, the CCC had been warning farmers to build their own storage bins., Not many had done so. Most farmers would have to look, as they had always done, to the country elevators-and soon they would have to look elsewhere. Many farmers would have no place to put their wheat but on the ground, and nothing to do but pray that rain, rats and rot would spare...