Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...74th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Stalin, Novelist Howard Fast was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (value: about $25,000 taxfree) for 1953-"the highest honor," he called it, "that can be conferred on any person in these times." New York City-born Author Fast, 41 (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road), commended himself to the Kremlin by his judgments on the Communist Party ("No nobler, no finer product of man's existence") and the mid-century U.S. ("Only one virtue remains-betrayal-and the only measure of human worth is the measure of a pimp"). Beyond these words...
Jerry Lewis: "He can pull out all the stops in his attack on the audience . . . There is not a person alive who can suppress a guffaw at a perfectly timed pratfall...
...become a battle of principles which few foresaw two years ago. Both sides are trying to solve a complex problem by sweeping generalizations. The Negro as a person and the varying local situations are no longer considered in rational terms by most southerners, regardless of their color. They have become secondary considerations, to be ironed out after general policy is decided...
Present membership in the Communist Party casts extremely serious doubt on the usefulness of a professor, to be sure, but democratic procedure requires an individual consideration of the case and a presumption of innocence for each person accused or suspected. And the validity of Fifth Amendment firings was solidly checked by the Supreme Court's ruling in the Slochower case (see page seven...
Whose Fault? The grumblers have not always grumbled without cause. But they have so distorted the picture that it would sometimes seem that the intellectual is America's hopeless Displaced Person. He is not only supposed to be the man that Senator McCarthy is after; he is also supposed to be the man that the rest of the nation persistently chooses to ignore or scorn. Diplomat George Kennan has said: "I can think of few countries in the world where the artist, the writer, the composer or the thinker is held in such general low esteem...