Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truman when he sent U.S. forces into Korea in 1950, or Eisenhower in the Lebanon crisis, or Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs. In modern times, the possibility of nuclear conflict has made swift decision-making by the President an imperative. Says Stanford's Historian Emeritus Edgar E. Robinson: "The growth of the powers of the President in foreign relations appears to be the most important phenomenon in modern history, inasmuch as the exercise of those powers by four Presidents in the past 20 years has determined de- velopments throughout the world...
...inner circle of back scratchers consists of John Holt (How Children Learn), Jonathan Kozol (Death at an Early Age), Robert Coles (Children of Crisis), Edgar Z. Friedenberg (Coming of Age in America) and Herbert Kohl (36 Children). By no coincidence at all, Holt lauded Kozol's book in the New York Review of Books. Kozol praised Holt's book in LIFE and Friedenberg's book in the Christian Science Monitor. Coles exalted the Kozol and Friedenberg books in reviews for the New York Times. Friedenberg, in turn, gushed over Kozol's writing in the Saturday Review...
Boon for the Buzzards. That, too, is highly unlikely. After 56 years in the Army and a quarter of a century as head of the draft, Hershey is-like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover-a Washington monument...
...Quite a few strapping youngsters-suffer the little parents-are spectacularly discontented. Even more disturbing, too many youngsters are withdrawing rather than warring. While flower children go to pot, the new disease of alienation drives elite collegians into private exile. "Children are not fighting their parents," says Author-Sociologist Edgar Z. Friedenberg (The Vanishing Adolescent). "They're abandoning them...
Semolina (16) pilchard (17) climbing up the Eiffel Tower. (18) Elementary penguin (19) singing Hare Krishna man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen...