Word: handmaidens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lurid picture of integration in Washington, where "it was necessary to station policemen in the halls and corridors of their public schools, and even this action did not prevent rape, beatings and muggings." Although Sanders himself is a segregationist, Griffin calls him "a puppet and an amanuensis and a handmaiden of Martin Luther King...
...windows, and fountains with statuary in or around them." At the National Conference of Editorial Writers, Von Moschzisker argued his case: "The psychologists and efficiency experts now find that beauty increases productivity. It necessarily follows that true functionalism in man-made edifices must include artistic expression. Sterility and her handmaiden, monotony, must be banished...
...singers, thus unembarassed and unencumbered, are capable and impressive. As Mary, Jean Lunn has a voice that is remarkably clear and untroubled. Her Magnificat in the third scene is particularly successful--a potent and thankful handmaiden of the Lord, she glorifies God in graceful, controlled arabesques...
...Bridges had a strong sense of loyalty to his colleagues, regardless of party or politics. He tried hard to save Joe McCarthy from the Senate's censure, and might have succeeded had not McCarthy made a witless remark about the panel of Senators investigating him being the "unwitting handmaiden" of Communism. When asked to campaign against Democrat Scott Lucas in Illinois in 1950, Bridges was furious. "Scott Lucas refused to come to New Hampshire in 1948 and campaign against me," he sputtered. "I'll never go after him, no matter how long I live." Last year, for much...
...Government policy by "a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions" and an "immense" military establishment. "In the councils of Government," he said, "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Nor, he added, should free scholarship become the handmaiden of the Federal Government. "The free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a Government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds...