Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Refusing to accept Federal funds under a "loyalty oath" provision while mouthing platitudes on academic freedom, the Trustees of Amherst College last week rejected a $1340 grant received under the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act. Their action dramatizes wide-spread objection to the clause requiring every...
In one sense, Wall Street is now paying for the success of its campaign to recruit small stockholders. Once a stockholder has an account, the high-priced blue chips that he first bought may seem pretty stodgy beside the greater gains possible in more speculative companies. He knows that top...
The most absurd objection was that "the story itself seemed dated." It is fantastic to try to imagine eliminating novels and plays from our literature on the criterion of datedness. Oedipus Rex and Hamlet, to name only two, would have to go immediately.
"I was fanatically pro-British," Grivas had told a friend on leaving Cyprus. "But the British made us bitter. It is for them to rebuild this friendship now." And what now for him? "My dream is to return to Cyprus," said Grivas. On that unsettled island, its leader, bearded Archbishop...
For All Ages. A major obstacle to changing U.S. diet patterns has been the attitude of the meat and dairy industries. Authors Keys and Keys tackle both head on. For children, they see no objection to milk, but no advantage in stuffing them with butter and ice cream. For adults...