Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dangerous Decoy. Near Utah's Bear River Wildlife Refuge, where the bleak shadows of the Wasatch Mountains stretch toward Great Salt Lake, hunters could hardly shoot fast enough. Fat from a summer in the grainfields of western Canada, great flights of geese and fresh-water ducks made tempting targets...
Toynbee believes that even a "post-Christian" West may yet be saved by Christianity, but not as it is embodied in the existing churches. In fact, a return to orthodoxy would be merely a false and temporary refuge. Instead, Toynbee suggests a kind of spontaneous rally of faith, possibly even...
On November 30, three faculty members were quietly and unceremoniously dismissed from Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College. They were given no reasons for the school's action except a written assurance that it was not because they were found subversive. Indeed, Jefferson's own hearings established the loyalty of all...
The second reaction to the pressures of anti-intellectualism is that the academic world, instead of turning outward to fight, has often turned in upon itself, seeking refuge in the collective sympathy of its own kind. This attitude produces a result more subtle than a refusal to testify and is...
Mother Dictator. Turgenev was the slave of a mother who had herself suffered all the ignominies of enslavement. As a young girl, she was abused with "drunken violence" by her stepfather until she was 16 years old. She ran away and took refuge in the house of a "severe and...