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...very great American once stated that America would pay any price, bear any burden and meet any hardship in the defense of liberty. Does this quotation pertain to the war in Viet Nam? Or was the meaning of it buried with John F. Kennedy...
Certain PBH executives are also working with other students and faculty members to persuade the University to offer more courses for credit that pertain to contemporary issues...
...second novel of the U.S.A. trilogy, a TIME cover story (Aug. 10, 1936) saw him mainly as a valuable contemporary historian, a journalist of genius rather than a novelist-the composer, as Dos Passos puts it now, of "a narrative panorama to which I saw no end." These judgments pertain today, though it is also true that the work that stood "midway between history and fiction" was fiction all along. Dos Passes' bare, flat non-style, in which events-tragical, comical, pastoral or historical-were impersonally told in the same tone of voice, can now be seen...
Friedman said later that whether or not the movie should have been shown to French 183 was up to Johnson's discretion. He pointed out that the film did pertain directly to the course's subject matter. In contrast, he noted that Genet was not even included in the regular Hum 4 reading list...
Some of the findings might not pertain to the U.S., but Americans are equally ingenious. Men use the clips for makeshift key chains and tie clips. Frustrated executives fire them against the wall with rubber bands. Secretaries use them to keep hairdos in place or hold broken bra straps together. And, bent lengthwise, a paper clip makes a perfect hook for hanging Christmas tree balls...