Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year that Red-Ucators appeared, Alger Hiss went on trial in New York as a result of evidence gathered in an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law School in the thirties, and while in Cambridge had been on the Law Review and a protege of Felix Frankfurter. When he went to Washington as a federal administrator, Hiss, like countless servants of the New Deal, symbolized Harvard to the nation. And, when he was convicted of perjury, the real charge in the public mind was espionage, and the University was viewed with...
...century," said Clare Boothe Luce, "a man appears on the political scene who is brilliant, witty, courageous, honest-and articulate. What a wonderful thing it is to be on his side of the political barricades." The man she was talking about, William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review and Conservative Party candidate for mayor of New York City, reacted in a way that measured up to at least part of the billing: "Normally, when Mrs. Luce makes a political evaluation, I find myself nodding my head and thinking, 'She is profoundly right.' This time, I adore...
...Author Kazin, were starting out in the Thirties. An essayist, critic and anthologist (F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Man and His Work; The Portable William Blake), Kazin was born in a Brooklyn slum, the son of an immigrant Polish Jew. He got his first job, as a part-time book reviewer for the New Republic, in the summer of 1934 -"that bottom summer when the first wild wave of hope under the New Deal had receded." It was a thin time, and Kazin recalls that "there were so many of us" who depended on review assignments to live that Editor Malcolm...
...University of the South, perched on a plateau in the Cumberland Mountains at Sewanee, Tenn., represents excellence in education wrapped in a tiny package. Only 787 students, all men, in habit its 10,000 acres. Its Sewanee Review is a first-rate literary quarterly. Its English department is one of the best; it has an enviable one-to-twelve teacher-student ratio, and has turned out fifteen Rhodes scholars, one of the best records among colleges its size...
...Physical Review Letters, Reines reported that he and a team of Case Institute and South African scientists detected seven natural neutrinos-not many, but a hopeful beginning. These neutrinos, each of which registered energies well in excess of 10 billion electron volts, presumably were produced by the interaction of primary cosmic rays with the earth's atmosphere. Except for their superhigh energies, the natural neutrinos appeared to be about the same as those created...