Word: jessup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seeing "I." The 15 short stories are almost entirely in the first person. Anderson's "I" can be any member of the Jessup family, around which most of the stories are woven, or any of their friends, and there are moments of confusion, when it is difficult to be sure just who is who. Yet the device gives full play to Anderson's strongest talent: his grasp of the speech rhythm and idiom of his people. More clearly than in much fiction, it is in the telling that the truth of the tale emerges...
...Jenner of Indiana . . . You imply that Jenner's charge of George Marshall being a "front man for traitors was untrue. Yet, in using these words, he was being kind to George Marshall, for the record, fully documented by McCarthy, Jenner and others, shows that it was Marshall, Acheson, Jessup and others of the same mode of thinking who sold China down the river...
...decades passed, colleges of law, medicine, dentistry, engineering and pharmacy began to rise along the Iowa River. Starting with the presidency of Walter A. Jessup (1916-34), S.U.I, gradually embarked on a whole new tack. Under Ed ward Mabie, the aramatic art department and University Theater started turning out such alumni as Playwright Tennessee Williams, Producer Richard (The Big Clock) Maibaum, Actor Macdonald Carey and Stage Designer Lemuel (Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate) Ayers. Onto the prairie, meanwhile, came poets, novelists and painters (among them: Iowa-born Grant Wood). The university began a representative collection of modern American canvases...
...S.U.I.'s field house is big enough for an entire indoor football field and though its football team is rapidly rising to the top of the Big Ten, the university's interests on the whole lie elsewhere. "Unless there is a spirit of learning here," said President Jessup, "unless there is a genuine thirst for knowledge, unless there is a hunger for education, nothing worthwhile will happen...
...Students at Harvard do not evaluate the material they are taught. The result is they are being indoctrinated with much left-wing theory of a color to match Harvard's crimson," she stated. "I believe this is even more true today than when Harvard was turning out Hiss, Jessup, Acheson, the Service Boys, and Lattimore," she concluded in the letter...