Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater workshop, under the direction of Gaynor Bradish '52, Teaching Fellow in English, is concerned mainly with reading and discussing plays informally. They began the year with Hamlet and will progress to such authors as Ibsen and O'Neill...
Hodel, a Stalker supporter, agreed to present a report of the HYRC Special Investigating Committee to the Student Council. He also agreed to give the Council access to the Committee's testimony and minutes and to keep it informed on the progress of the Committee...
...tourists, sick of grey winter days, flew to the West Indies in record numbers, the sunny lands of the Caribbean surged with progress, violence and tropical intrigue. In Jamaica, the democratic chieftains of the British Caribbean islands formed a new nation at a significant, heartening, little-noticed conference. In Cuba, a dictator struck out sharply to quell a running revolution that was not yet shaking his regime-but was not slowing down, either. Another dictator, in the Dominican Republic, was caught in a tightening web of evidence in the airplane kidnaping of a Manhattan scholar who criticized...
...population of Communist Poland, a wave of anti-Semitism is sweeping the country. Since the break with Russia last October and the relaxation of border regulations, more than 25,000 Jews have applied for passports to Israel. An exodus, including intellectuals, manual laborers and Communists, is in progress, reported New York Times Correspondent Sydney Gruson...
...September 1954 a white mother tried to transfer her child to another school because of the child's Negro teacher. Persuaded to postpone action for a two-or three-week trial period, the mother became so fond of the teacher-and so proud of her child's progress-that she happily decided to leave him where he was. In a junior high school, a group of boys decided to join an anti-integration demonstration going on in front of their school. But on the way outside the building, they passed a Negro classmate, promptly proved that they...