Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holden is one of those who broke under Chinese Communist brainwashing and signed a germ-warfare confession. Back home, he tries to fly his way back into the heart of the girl (Virginia Leith), the confidence of the Air Force (Brigadier General Lloyd Nolan) and his own self-respect. The picture is sure to be exciting for taxpayers who like to see what they are getting for their money...
...report suggested that a variety of living arrangements might be suitable to accomodate "individual tastes and needs," and said that "much as we admire the Houses and respect what they are doing, we cannot accept the notion that the House Plan provides the only desirable sort of living arrangements for our undergraduates." It noted that "economy and some admirable educational results" were achieved under other systems...
...Yale, in fact, those slightly academically or socially unaccepted students receive names such as "weenies" or "turkeys;" at Harvard they are occasionally dubbed "wonks;" and even at Wellesley students are apt to meet "Peter Pans." Yet at Tufts students are able to treat classmates with the type of mutual respect which eliminates such groups of the "unaccepted...
...talk and study, however, no legislation, and not even a comprehensive program materialized. Even Eisenhower admits that the latest imaginative addition to federal aid to education was made six years ago, though the intervening years were fraught with war babies. The reasons for the President's failure in this respect are not completely clear. The President blames the Democrats, who, he maintains, voted against his bill 215 to 9. He fails to point out that a majority of Democrats afterward voted for a similar bill, which the Republicans managed to kill through their shenanigans over the Powell amendment. Thinking...
...therefore, would question the value of the new President's efforts to keep the government free from subversion and raise popular respect for the bureaucracy. In this regard the Administration has heeded its public mandate. But in the workings of the Eisenhower security program and in the President's conduct of the executive office lie some of the most justifiable criticisms of the Republican regime...