Word: manageed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Truman is a very busy man; we don't start telling him what to do," Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, remarked Thursday. Truman had planned to reside at Lowell during his visit. Perkins called it "something of an imposition" to invite "a man who is so busy," but...
His main interest is the current theater, comedy in particular; and he feels there is definitely something wrong with the comic stage in America. "Neither the writers nor the actors seem to have a sense of 'style' in the theater. The English have a great and persistent tradition for high...
Capitulation. The contagion of defiance spread from below ground to the surface. Passengers refused to board a London bus because it was "revoltingly grubby." The bus was promptly cleaned. Newspapers cheered on the mutineers. Cried the Sunday Graphic: "The time has come to insist on getting what you have paid...
Schlesinger would not quite concur in this estimate, and in fact goes to considerable lengths to outline the ideological antecedents of much New Deal legislation. Nevertheless, the argumentation so carefully reported in the volume's chapters on agricultural, industrial, financial, conservation, labor and relief policies seems very much spur-of...
Certainly, loyalty oaths or pledges of allegiance are out of place in a free society. But many universities receiving federal aid manage to survive despite them; Harvard, for example, will match a federal award for any deserving applicant who refuses to sign the oath. Not all schools, however, are as...