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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested in power!" Yet this rebel chieftain lives by and thrives on just that. This is history repeating itself. Let us not look for the best in this man but be prepared for the worst. Castro promises much, but so did Batista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...expected that the Committee on Educational Policy will give final approval to the plan in time for it to take effect this year. The proposed topic is a critique of Camus' Rebel, utilizing all the material covered in the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Sci 4 to Exempt Top Students From Requirement of Final Exams | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

Titled Ideal Man and Natural Man in Western Thought, Soc Sci 4 covers Greek culture, Japanese culture, doctrine of St. Augustine, and 20th century psychology and anthropology. Rebel was chosen as a topic, Kluckhom noted, because in the book Camus deals with many of the problems raised in the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Sci 4 to Exempt Top Students From Requirement of Final Exams | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

...basic fault was a lack of careful groundwork. During the seven years of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's iron regime, and during the two years of Rebel Fidel Castro's mountain-locked resistance, Cuba got too little attention from the daily press. Scant word of Batista atrocities-of the Cubans who died at the hands of his army and his police-filtered past his porous censorship. The strength of the Castro position, after the revolt lapsed into a tropical stalemate, was misjudged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporting a Revolution | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...meaning of Cuba's sudden agony was left to deskbound editorial writers. They fired from the hip. Batista, the deposed tyrant, was condemned. Castro, the idealistic liberator, rated approving choruses, relieved only here and there by a suspicious question. In the next phase, as the tattoo of rebel firing squads stitched a new pattern on the face of Cuba, and the landscape was no longer boldly black and white, U.S. readers were presented with multiple images of Castro, ranging all the way from the Christ-like idealist to the ruthless murderer. The New York Times's Herbert Matthews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporting a Revolution | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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