Word: mumford
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...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...
...stood Critic Lewis Mumford, 69, outgoing president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to address the group's annual spring meeting in Manhattan. He had a fever, and his temperature matched his mood as he launched into a bitter denunciation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, professing to see "a rising tide of public shame and private anger at the moral outrages to which our Government has committed our country." That proved to be more than Fellow Academician Thomas Hart Benton, 76, the rugged Missouri muralist, could swallow. He stormed from the rostrum, fired off a telegram...
...Howard Mumford Jones, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, yesterday was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the area of general non-fiction for his book, "O Strange New World...
...Mumford believes that the study of American life and letters is "one of the most difficult and demanding disciplincs in the world of scholarship." The good student of America must know not only his own subject but also understand its European sources and the influences of Latin America, he claimed. "It is not," he said, "a discipline for the C mind...
Butler was a tough administrator, and his "sins" multiplied in Southern eyes: he hanged a man named William Mumford who had torn the Union flag from atop the U.S. Mint (though Southern and Copperhead critics conveniently forgot that Butler also hanged Union soldiers caught looting in New Orleans); he confiscated property and gold that the rebels had hidden (but passed it all along to Washington...