Word: et
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boiled down to generalizations which are part routine observation, part unbending classification. Those who are not so well read will flee to the mercifully straight evidence of more self-circumscribed historians to escape such tortured, huffy judgments as this one on "the cult of irrationality" (in literature, Hemingway, Faulkner, et al.) : "Its inspiration was science, and it raised the question whether any philosophy could be longer tolerated in a universe wholly without meaning and as indifferent to any meaning that the paltry mind of man might read into it as man himself was to the response that the ephemera might...
...last week, the U.S. Government had spoken softly in its fight against Britain's restrictions on dollar oil (TIME, Jan. 2 et seq.). Then it decided the time had come to waggle a big financial stick. ECA's petroleum chief, Oscar Bransky, told a House subcommittee that Britain will get no more ECA dollars for expansion of its own oil refining industry until the fight is settled...
...Jack Steele, 35, of the New York Herald Tribune, the Raymond Clapper memorial award, for contributing to "public enlightenment and a sound democracy." Stories by Steele started the congressional investigation of the "five-percenters" (TIME, July 4 et seq.). Said President Truman, whose aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, was one of those investigated: "Congratulations, Jack. I like good reporting, no matter what it says...
When the Board of Regents of the University of California drew up a loyalty oath last summer for its 11,000 teachers and staffmen, the faculty's Academic Senate flatly refused to accept it (TIME, rune 27 et seq.). Later, the oath was toned down a little; instead of having to wear that they had never joined, supported, or even believed in a subversive organization, faculty members would simply have to swear that they were not members of the Communist Party. But after eight months, 13.5% of the faculty had still not signed. Last week the Regents issued...
...distaste. They point out that no one knows accurately how much continued radiation is needed to kill a man. There may be preventives or cures. No one knows how H-bombs will work or how soon they can be made to work. Kindly critics say that Brown, Szilard et al. have been led by emotion to confuse the worst possibilities of the future with the sufficiently alarming present. Some, not so kindly, charge that the alarmists, however well-intentioned they may be, are helping to frighten the U.S. public into forcing dangerous concessions to Russia...