Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even cheeky George Wallace might have expected, there were many Wisconsinites who were anything but happy to have him around. The Milwaukee Journal got off some potshots at him before he arrived, and three of the state's Catholic newspapers carried withering blasts. Heedless of all that, Wallace landed in Milwaukee to be greeted by members of several ragtag organizations, among them the Liberty Amendment Committee, dedicated to income tax repeal, and the Christian Freedom Fighters, who want to "put more Christ into politics...
Russell was on his feet again, this time with an amendment to the Journal. His "amendment" turned into a two-hour monologue, while Alabama's John Sparkman snoozed at his desk and other Senators sat glassy-eyed. At 3:15, Russell addressed a parliamentary inquiry to Wyoming Republican Milward Simpson, who was sitting in as the Senate's presiding officer...
...they recklessly cut off a sturdy taproot of secular culture. To measure the cost, English Teacher Thayer S. Warshaw of crack Newton (Mass.) High School devised a 112-question quiz on simple Biblical allusions, sprang it on five classes of bright, college-bound juniors and seniors. In The English Journal, he reports the result: a sobering case of "cultural deprivation...
...Turf. Mersey-side's cultural crisis began in 1955, when the American movie Rock Around the Clock came to town. All the kids went to see it and, of course, they tore up the theater in their enthusiasm. But according to an article in the British sociology journal New Society, things were never the same again. Says 19-year-old Colin Fletcher, who was a member of two Merseyside gangs before he entered Liverpool University: "It was the first time the gangs had been exposed to an animal rhythm that matched their own behavior. The beat spread like...
...Saturday afternoon in New York, and the Journal-American's Columnist ("Man About Manhattan") and Theater Critic John McClain had a date with Mrs. Anne Ford, recently divorced from Henry Ford II. They were going to see the movie Tom Jones. And thereby hangs a tale...