Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brzezinski was in Poland from the beginning of June to mid-July on a Social Science Research Council grant to study the pattern of Polish politics, particularly Gomulka's rise to power. He has already written one article, to be published soon, and will incorporate his findings into a larger study he is pursuing on Soviet-Satellite relations...
...final word. Not even Yale can legislate social attitudes. The sooner A. Whitney Griswold and his bunch of deans find out they have a crew of uncivilized weenies on their hands, the better...
Spreading Tension. What Orval Faubus wrought for Arkansas, he wrought for the South. Said the Knoxville, Tenn. News-Sentinel of Orval's stand: "This official act has lent an air of respectability and social approval to mob action." Violence exploded in Nashville (see below), and responsible officials attributed it directly to the impact of the news from Little Rock. In Charlotte, N.C., Dorothy Counts, Negro high school girl who had faced the jeers of a crowd with dignity and courage the week before, finally surrendered to heightened passion, withdrew from school...
...troublemakers from athletic teams and other extracurricular activities. Washington, D.C. schools are now fully integrated (but 20% of the Negro schoolchildren, living in Negro neighborhoods, go to all-Negro schools), and 58,500 Negroes attend classes along with white children in what one school official called a "miracle of social adjustment." The rapid march to total integration is all the more noteworthy because Negroes make up a 68% majority among District of Columbia public school children...
...slamming "tone-cluster" days of the '20s and early '30s, when a New York newspaper sent a sportswriter to one of his piano recitals and featured it as a fight between "Kid Knabe and Battling Cowell." Apart from teaching stints at Columbia and the New School for Social Research, he spends most of his time in a peeling, starkly furnished yellow clapboard house in Shady, N.Y., surrounded by instruments that testify to his lifelong passion for sounds: Persian drums, Oriental flutes, a set of four resonant Pyrex bowls that he used in his Symphony No. 11 ("When...