Word: mumford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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America's foreign policy-makers have an essentially fascist outlook, Lewis Mumford said last night...
...Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, has refused to teach at the University of Texas because of the university's demand that he sign on oath disclaiming membership in the Communist Party and other subversive organizations...
...Lewis Mumford, author of The City in History, Technics and Civilization, and numerous other scholarly works, and John Maher, research fellow in Humanities at M.I.T. also addressed the forum...
...Marxism from the schools and colleges of America, and to stimulate sound American education." In keeping with these patriotic goals, the Council, in 1949, published a booklet entitled Red-Ucators at Harvard, listing subversive Harvard professors and the "Communist-Front" organizations to which they belonged. Crane Brinton, Howard Mumford Jones, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Mark DeWolfe Howe, and John Kenneth Galbraith were all named. So was an associate professor of Physics, Wendell H. Furry...
...countryside-the sensation that Nature is being suffocated beneath spans of concrete. "In many parts of the country the building of a highway has about the same results upon vegetation and human structures as the passage of a tornado or the blast of an atom bomb," protests Critic Lewis Mumford, one of the foremost save-our-trees esthetes. In San Francisco, Folk Singer Malvina Reynolds became so angry with the California Highway Department that she wrote a song...