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...National Park Service reckoned with out a resident historian on the committee -Ohio Democrat Michael Kirwan, who never got past second grade, but knows all about the War of 1812 and how Fort Washington, twelve miles south of the capital, surrendered ignominiously to the British. "Do you have to remind people that that is the place we ran from without firing a shot?", the budget-cutting Congressman asked acidly. Just like Fort Washington's garrison, the Park Service surrendered...
Playing down big-time athletics, Gallagher stressed high moral standards. In 1954, at the height of faculty fear of McCarthyism in the colleges, he dismissed the Senator with "It is time for us to remind an ambitious politician that the American college and university are welded into an anvil which has worn out many hammers." Last fall he faced another kind of problem: student editors began to give a campus newspaper a "Marxistoriented" sound. Gallagher, shunning censorship, discredited them in a fact-filled brief...
...electronic background. Unlike the European experimenters in the field, he does not use electronic music as a medium for serial composition but as a more far-reaching attempt to broaden the listening powers of the concert audience. As such I think the best of his works succeed. His compositions remind us that music is, after all, merely sound organized by men in some purposeful fashion, and that its limits are set by its purpose. His belief that music is experience, not communication, helps to destroy the straight-jacket that social forms and traditional compositions have put on our listening habits...
Though Kennedy did not say so, the new U.S. Administration hoped to encourage Communist Gomulka's independence from Moscow and to remind other captive peoples behind the Iron Curtain that...
...front of government buildings and the homes of French "liberals" or pro-De Gaulle Moslems. From Tunisia and Morocco, diehard F.L.N. troops mounted savage attacks on the fortified borders of Algeria. They killed 14 French soldiers but suffered a reported 126 dead before breaking off the suicidal attempts to remind the French that the F.L.N. still commands an army in the field...