Word: junes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your June 15 article, "Spain: Nation in Trouble," you state: "Wisely spent, the $2 billion pumped into Spain [by the U.S.] during the past eight years might have gone far toward putting the country on its feet. But bureaucrats went on an ill-conceived spending spree...
...found your June 15 story on Lewis Strauss most interesting and informative. It told not only about him but of the pettiness of our Congressmen. To refuse a capable man a position because of personality, rather than wrongdoing, reflects the immaturity of some of our Congressmen and is a strong mark against our country...
...take exception to the statement in your article "Sculpture 1959" [June 15] that "artists have never been asked to do more than reflect the time in which they live." I resent that artists are viewed as sponges that simply soak in "our time" and spew it out on canvas. Artists have in many cultures been expected to produce and have produced art that depicts an "ideal state" of what ought to be. Today, there are artists depicting what ought to be, but they have no listeners among people who are aware of our times and acknowledge their awareness...
...have just read your article, "Sally's Service," [about British Teen-Ager Sally Moore, who rewrote an Anglican church's evening service for more teen-age appeal-June 15]. I think this gal Sally should take another look at what she is doing to God's service and her fellow youths. If she and other teenagers would put down their Elvis records and Mad comics and turn to the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible, they could better understand the Psalms and Apostles' Creed, instead of having to drop them from their service or distort...
...Pain for me because I hate human misery and wrote a play which said so [A Raisin in the Sun). Pain about you, because you couldn't care less. And pain for my beleaguered family, surrounded by imposed frozen financing, in a city that says it wants repairs [June...