Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accompanying article, "The New Mood in Politics," Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, repeated his cyclical theory of politics. According to Schlesinger, the new decade will be "one of the exciting and creative epochs in our history." "The politics of the Fifties were.... the politics of fatigue," he wrote, adding, "The people wanted any excuse to forget public affairs...
...Hugh M. Raup, professor of Botany and Director of the Harvard Forest, has been named to the new Charles Bullard Professorship of Forestry, named in honor of one of Miss Bullard's brothers...
...m afraid of a letdown," coach Jack Barnaby commented last night. Remembering the football team's disastrous performance against Brown after upsetting Princeton, he observed that squash and tennis are Amherst's strongest sports...
...with ideals of any kind, not even plastic ones. "Somebody makes a metal armature for me," she explains, "and I start covering it with quick-drying plaster. I work very fast, often trying to combine the form of a bird with the form of a man. I'm absorbed in forms. When I do a bird, it's not a bird to me, but the form of a bird. Not that there is any right form exactly; it comes different every...
...CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY, by Mark M. Boatner III (974 pp.; Mckay; $15), suggests that arguments about the Civil War may never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...