Word: pots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this defense of liberal education had come from a college president-as such defenses often have come-it might have been dismissed as the cry of a man watching his business go to pot in wartime. But the speaker was no college president. He was Wendell Willkie, speaking last week at North Carolina's Duke University. What he added has not so often been said in recent months...
This is my country. I am part of the melting pot. I was born here, and I want to die here, and every drop of my blood will be spilt to protect those I cherish on this American soil. I am an American first, last and always, and the American freedom shall be ours forever...
...than is implied by "half-and-half" led him to books, to the studies of the sociologists, finally to Sicily itself. "... I began asking myself questions like these: Was it in the chemistry of human life for my relatives to become Anglo-Saxonized-the apparent goal of the melting pot theorists? . . . Was it necessary that they try to change themselves? Didn't America need their wisdom and their warmth, just as they and their children needed America's youth and vigor...
There the class of '43-600 men whose education was speeded up last February-was graduated six months ahead of schedule without caps & gowns, parades, ivy-planting (except in a pot) or other ceremony. Within a few weeks nearly all will be in active military service. At the same time, Yale announced that it had leased half its dormitories and a third of its classrooms to the Army Air Forces. After the Christmas recess, some 2,600 officers and men will crowd undergraduates out of many of the university's neo-Gothic houses. The Army will be packed...
...Afro-Cuban habanera, the world has imported a remarkably large part of its popular music from Cuba. But only in recent years has this import business mushroomed into a sizable industry. Captain of that industry today is a black-haired, rather chinless band leader, Xavier Cugat (rhymes with glue pot), who gets an annual gross of $500,000 purveying the Cuban rumba and other Latin-American rhythms to the U.S. public. Last week Importer Cugat was at the peak of his career...