Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courses: he is whisked through the centuries, fed a few Great Ideas, forced to memorize a multitude of facts. This peculiar ritual ends with a process of mental regurgitation, commonly known as "the final." No matter what name it hides under, the survey course is supposed to provide a rock-like foundation for greater things...
...General to file suits on behalf of citizens deprived of civil rights,* an omission seeming to indicate that the President is satisfied with the present pace of integration. Key provisions of the new program : ¶ Make force or threat of force a federal offense when used, as in Little Rock, to defy U.S. court integration orders; recommended maximum penalties: two years and $10,000 fine...
...South was led down the blind alley of blind resistance by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus in September 1957, when he spurned both federal law and the sober advice of fellow citizens in his attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance...
Owlish Cellist Pablo Casals, 81, ventured a hopeful thought on a species of U.S.-bred cacophony scarcely ever ventured on his mellow instrument: "Rock 'n' roll is a disease that shall pass away as quickly as it was created. It is a sad thing for your country. It is nothing, nothing...
Today, the Justice Department released a document covering advice which Herbert Brownell, then the attorney general, gave Eisenhower on what to do in the crisis resulting from opposition, including mob violence, in Little Rock to school integration orders