Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levine then told her students it was not enough to read and be aware; they should also participate-write letters to TIME'S editors, to their Congressmen, to news commentators. One boy objected: "No one will listen to us kids." Replied Mrs. Levine, "Try it and see." In fact, see LETTERS...
Business as Usual. Chicagoans read the blaze as a message written brazenly across the sky by the smooth-running, omnipresent crime syndicate. The Fireside's proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record...
Looking on from afar, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who was slow to express indignation about Soviet tanks in Hungary, read in the Yugoslav-Russian quarrel a lesson of Communist "interference in other countries' domestic affairs...
...Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a work by the Irish historian Lecky. When he returned, he was still in his early twenties, but he had received a liberal education from the study of these volumes. And when he was married, he read Carlyle's French Revolution to his bride at night until dawn broke...
...have preserved their peculiarity and vitality, and that they have good prospects for the future. There is no reason to believe O'Dea's analysis faulty; perhaps one measure of Mormonism's vitality is the growing intellectual concern it is receiving, a concern exemplified by these two recent books. Read in combination, O'Dea's book and Among the Mormons provide an excellent introduction to the last existing native religion to emerge from the American forntier...