Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gromyko's point was rather aimed-as his dealings with the Western ambassadors seemed to be-against the unity of the allies. Said Gromyko: "Reckless flights of American bombers extend the fearful shadow of atomic war to the British and the French, to the people of Western Germany, to the peoples of all countries who have been bound hand and foot by military commitments to the U.S. and who have allowed American atomic and rocket bases to be built on their territory. One must be blind not to see in our time the dangerous consequences...
Your article "The Long Shadow of John Dewey" ought to be emblazoned on the walls of every academic institution cursed with the pseudoscientific, anti-intellectual invention of this age: the department of education. Having been educated in a school system of this otiose type, I now look forward to the day when I shall receive my B.A. degree from Texas University. Then I can satisfy myself that I have received the equivalent of a good high school education...
...Shadow Cabinet. Sitting in an outer wing of the presidential palace watching these goings-on is young Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal, a Magsaysay follower who, running on the Liberal ticket, got more votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed...
...Macapagal has gathered round him a shadow cabinet of advisers, and set up his own intelligence service in the government. Last week, as President Garcia blithely mapped his strategy for getting another $300 million from the U.S. during his forthcoming visit to Washington this spring, Macapagal's sleuths began seeking evidence of corruption...
...Long Shadow of John Dewey" is the most concise and comprehensive statement on U.S. education since Sputnik. Could it not be that a hierarchy of educationists has distorted and stretched Dewey's shadow to a shape and length he himself never intended...