Word: parcels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anti-lntellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter. Anti-intellectual-ism, argues Hofstadter, is part and parcel of democracy, and he demonstrates the point with lively discourses on famous anti-intellectual mavericks and movements...
...himself and a Columbia University historian (The American Political Tradition, The Age of Reform). "Men do not rise in the morning, grin at themselves in their mirrors, and say: 'Ah, today I shall torment an intellectual and strangle an idea!' " Anti-intellectualism, argues Hofstadter, is part and parcel of any popular democracy...
Harvard's bid for the entire site is now $5,677,000, almost $1 million below the final offer of Samuel P. Coffman, Boston real-estate developer and the high bidder on the property. Coffman bid $25,000 for the extra parcel of land...
...older by 85 years than Harvard. Founded by the Roman Catholic Church as adjuncts to the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal, they were in the beginning centers of relative enlightenment. But after the wars of independence in the early 19th century, they became part and parcel of the rigid social and political system that dominated Latin America through a long succession of tyrants. Not until after World War I did a wave of liberalism sweep the hemisphere...
Convinced by now that Miss X was trustworthy, he handed her a big job. She was to deliver a paper-wrapped parcel to a man in Adelaide who would identify himself with a password. What Skripov did not know was that Miss X had been working for Australian intelligence all along, and she simply turned the parcel over to government agents. Inside they found coded transmission timetables for a Soviet radio station, along with a small, high-speed radio message sender. After waiting two anxious months for Miss X to carry out her task, Skripov last week learned what...