Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Philosopher John] Dewey is God, the National Education Association is his prophet, and all the teachers colleges are his disciples. This philosophy has been broadcast throughout our land for 40 years. It takes just about 30 or 40 years to change an educational system. We live in an era when it is very easy to get food and clothing. They come to us almost naturally. And so we believe that things of the mind can come that easily, too. This is where we fall down. This is the most serious problem facing...
...Mencken, and in September 1957, a strongly worded article entitled "Harvard Betrays its Heritage" appeared under the byline of Harold Lord Varney, managing editor. Criticizing the Harvard Corporation for its "mawkish tolerance of communism," Varney spoke of "intellectual mushiness," and concluded that the College had "fallen into an era of little men and little men and little safety haunted minds at the Harvard summit...
...amalgamation of the Radcliffe Yearbook staff with the Harvard Yearbook Publications, Inc., has given Radcliffe girls a book that is bigger, thicker, and slicker than those of the by-gone era of separateness. For some features, the new enlarged book merits enthusiastic praise. The quality of the photography, for instance, is incomparably superior to that of the former all Radcliffe volumes...
...yearbook staff, the book has perhaps sacrificed a little too much of its former folksiness as a memorable picture-book of life at the 'Cliffe. But at least this year's seniors have the privilege of carrying away with them the first Radcliffe Yearbook of the new and beautiful era of merger...
...used personal invention to the most effective degree, witness a Guernica or a Weeping Woman. On the other hand, fatalities exist too. The ingenuities of the twenties no longer spread as far as they once did. The first days of true retrospective judgment on that era are just commencing...