Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that their attitudes repudiated "the dominant American values." His conclusions that the beatniks were going "away from the search for identify" were in strong contrast to Hughes' comments on the increasing interest in modern history which shows the young's anxiety to establish a connection between themselves and the past...
Williams' argument is that the key to American policy in the past seventy years can be found in the famous frontier thesis of Frederic Jackson Turner. An undeveloped hinterland into which capital could be poured was seen as the prerequisite for a prosperous economy, and--in the "crucial" panic decade of the 1890's--"Americans reacted to the threat of economic stagnation and the fear of social upheaval by turning abroad for new frontiers...
...John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, and Siobhan McKenna will perform this summer for the Cambridge Drama Festival in an all-Shakespeare program. They will appear in a 2000-seat theater being built for the Metropolitan District Commission on Soldiers Field Road past the Stadium...
Bowditch, playing number two, faces another sophomore, Jack Klapper, who should give him a fair amount of trouble; and Tim Gallwey, at third singles, will meet Jeff Winicour, who was Tech's number one man the past two years. Below this point, however, the varsity has three men--Fred Vinton, Jorge Lemann and Bill Wood--of very high caliber, who (at least by their vacation performances) should have no difficulty with their respective opponents, Bob Kenfick, Bob Hodges, and Rabi Sikri...
...urged that Radcliffe try to keep some "room for maneuvre and experimentation" in its curriculum, instead of simply grafting itself onto Harvard's academic structure as it has done in the past. A broad liberal arts education, free from some of the high-powered departmental requirements imposed at Harvard, would be better for a women's college, Monro recommended...