Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physics-teacher husband and I enjoyed your comment re John Dewey's magnificent unintelligibility (TIME...
...line, John Dimeff played a standout game at left end as did Wood at tackle. Buckley and Tine were the main guns in the backfield...
Although handicapped by a threadbare plot, Akim Tamiroff and John Howard, with their superb acting, are responsible for making "Disputed Passage" a good picture. With Tamiroff as the surgeon of fame and Howard as the struggling, idealistic medical student, the action centers around the byplay between these two characters which gives the picture just the poignant boost it needs...
...John Reed Society asked me to chair their protest meeting Wednesday night with the feeling that a non-member of the society, interested, however, in the question of academic freedom which has been raised, would be free from a charge of partiality in the conduct of the meeting. But the intellectual sincerity of all of us who joined in protest against an abridgment of our traditional academic liberty has been seriously challenged...
...Pitts, on the other hand, who claimed a desire to participate in the protest, and whose attempt to disrupt the meeting also called forth Thursday's letter, the John Reed Society apparently did not see fit to invite him to speak. Whether this was an oversight or an intentional omission I myself cannot say. Even if it was the latter, their action is certainly understandable. Liberals and progressives have long known form bitter experience the destructive activities of those who call themselves Trotskyites. These activities have been felt by liberal organizations everywhere. Had he been seriously interested in the purpose...