Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more or less, to gibes from public-power Democrats and from the pundits and scientists who resented his part in recommending the cancellation of the security clearance of Physicist Oppenheimer (TIME, April 19, 1954). But in recent months Strauss had come under attack of a sharp and intensely personal sort from New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, ranking Senate Democrat on the powerful and once circumspect Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
Anderson's broadside, promptly reported around the world, was an attack on the integrity of the U.S. of a sort unequaled in the Western countries since a few French and British polemicists joined the Communists in their charge of germ warfare in Korea. But Strauss kept his reply in low key. Its net (in which the Pentagon joined): Not true. Pouted Anderson from his privileged sanctuary on the Senate floor: "He in effect four times calls me a liar...
...academic courses are also available. Because of the great proportion of students planning on college, no formal vocational program is offered, although courses in typing, shop, business law, and similar subjects are provided. Many students weave these courses into the normal college preparatory program, and almost all take some sort of non-academic elective. The curriculum includes art, speech, mechanical drawing, cooking, singing, dramatics, health, driver education, etc., and most of the traditional garnishings of American public education...
...following eleven pages, the Crimson presents a series of viewpoints on this system. It does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of the educational problem as it stands. It is, rather, an attempt to achieve some sort of understanding through a number of, hopefully, representative cases. Contrasts between these cases and an examination of several special problems involved will perhaps have more effect than a lengthy accumulation of generalization about "Education...
Student-faculty rivalry of this sort increased with time. Professors and tutors were the predecessors of the University Police, and as such incurred the hostility of the students. This hostility was mutual, students and faculty considering each other natural enemies...