Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I was born in Shanghai of missionary parents. As a boy I became interested in heaven as depicted in Revelations. I saw nothing jolly in harping and singing praises forever and ever. But I knew God as my friend and was sure He would provide something better and funnier...
In 1948, after a stint as editor of the New Republic, Wallace was wooed and waylaid by the hard-eyed opportunists of the Progressive Party. Though never a Communist himself, he accepted Communist help, he said, because "I will not repudiate any support which comes to me on the basis...
The difference between reactions to the Kennedy legend and the Johnson performance is even more dramatic abroad than at home. Johnson is regularly described by foreign left-wingers as a "man of blood" or a "cowboy murderer" or a "Texas assassin," who has "turned Viet Nam into a slaughterhouse." A...
Two years before he died in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his only child: "In your career as a wild society girl, vintage 1925, I am not interested." Well, she never really was a wild society girl, and certainly not of that vintage, but now Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan...
Thomas E. Skidmore, executive secretary of the Committee on Latin American Studies, said that the creation of these new chairs was partly the result of the Committee's agitation for an increase in Latin American studies. "We have been urging the various departments to fill chairs with men interested in...