Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried traditional Harvard indifference to the point of refusal to dignify charges with convincing replies. Freedom of inquiry and publication may have made inevitable the University's acquisition of a Red label in the thirties--a label fixed even firmer in the last three years by those who hunt throughout history to make headlines. But the University has been unaware of the sensitivity of the public on this issue, and too inclined to deplore it rather than combat...
...must have: brilliance, youth, original ideas, an engaging personality, and a knack for getting things done quickly. Last spring, when he decided his faculty lacked men who were experienced in practical education administration, he flew to Chicago, and offered the city's superintendent of schools a professorship. Herold C. Hunt, one of the nation's best known and most successful educators, turned down a contract renewal and took a salary cut to come here...
...riding on bullocks or camels, trekking across dunes and marshes, to 2,000 polling booths, where the magic papers lay. Six of Sudan's eight millions are Northerners, who worship Allah but still practice female circumcision; the rest are Southern primitives, who worship bulls, wear no clothes and hunt hippopotami in the swamps of the White Nile. There are Moslems and pagans, Dinkas, Bongos, Niam-Niams and Fuzzy-Wuzzies, but last week all confronted a new experience that most had never heard of and very few understood. The experience was democracy...
...This is the general confusion that let Odysseus out of the giant's cave, and in the scramble, the real ethical problem- to what extent one should tell the committee, not about oneself, but about others-is obscured. The very term 'witch hunt' is obscurantist...
...medium projects a new illusion of space by concentrating on familiar scenes like the George Washington Bridge and the New York skyline. Had the film concentrated as much on script lines as on skylines and necklines, How To Marry a Millionaire would have been a more profitable gold hunt...