Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the rock-'n'-roll generation, I suppose I should be accustomed to reading about such tragedies as "Ruin Around a Rebel" [Jan. 13], but this is one tragedy I can hardly push from my mind. I feel nothing but pity for Christine Nystrom and for the wife and children of the man she killed. Why couldn't there have been the usual logical reasons for her behavior...
Your article helps explain why the "American Way of Life" is not universally admired abroad. You refer to a model girl (of 16) "who never drank, smoked or rock-'n'-rolled." At what age, pray, does the average teen-age girl start drinking? At 13? And does the vicious teen-age girl start at ten? ALAN F. LOWELL
...attack on the Eisenhower Administration to Arkansas' J. (for James) William Fulbright, 53, the white knight of Democratic liberals-so white, in fact, that he is politically a segregationist with a record of opposition to last session's civil rights bill and of obdurate silence on Little Rock and his own state's governor, Orval Faubus. With such a background, Rhodes Scholar Fulbright chose an odd subject: education, and the federal education assistance bill before the Senate...
...Arkansan Fulbright cried, is "fat and immobile," apparently forgetting Little Rock's sinewy revolt against the desegregation order of the Supreme Court. And although he did not doubt that the U.S. would meet the challenges of missiles and satellites, he thought that the real solution lay in "a true revival of learning . . . We should reform our basic ideas about elementary and secondary education. We must emphasize the rigorous training of the intellect rather than the gentle cultivation of the personality, which has been so popular in recent years . . . Courses in life adjustment and coed cooking will...
...York Times was not bemused: "The speech went as far back as Sparta and Athens to illustrate some of its points, but perhaps the most remarkable point was that a Senator from Arkansas could speak so long and so eloquently . . . without once mentioning or discussing Little Rock...