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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through Delegate Warren Austin, explained that under its Constitution people can speak good or evil, truth or falsehood. Warmongers and peacemongers had free rein, and throughout U.S. history, especially recent U.S. history, the peacemongers won the arguments. The New York Times said: "What is the real cause of uncertainty in the world today? Is it words or is it deeds? We think it is deeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Podzhlgateli Voiny | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...background. The chances are that he will come out on top during his first bout with a gang fresh in from the streets. But not, according to Brooks, "if he is a man who is too typically Harvard, complete with accent and fastidious dress. He must be able to speak their language, and above all, he must have a little athletic prowess, because those kids like to respect you as a strong...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Record PBH Squad Treks to Settlement Houses | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, will speak tonight over station WCOP at 8 o'clock on "Why Babies Behave as They Do" as part of the Lowell Institute's series on "We Human Beings." Accompanying Professor Allport will be a panel of students from four local colleges, including William F. Clark '48 and Nancy Buhrer, Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allport to Discuss Child Behavior on Air-Waves Tonight | 10/28/1947 | See Source »

...great brother, Poet William Butler Yeats, Jack Yeats suffers such attacks in dignified silence. After all, he is the unquestionable dean of Irish artists. Almost everything he paints he sells at four-figure prices, and he exerts more influence than any other Dublin painter. His raucous paintings continued to speak for themselves and draw crowds to the gallery. A less well-attended Yeats exhibition opened in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Silent Dean | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...last program will be the problems of the Negro in America with Paul Robeson as the guest lecturer. Howard Fast will speak on the literature program while Joe Solomon, one of the Pepsi-Cola prize winners, will present the painting lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.Y.D. to Present Ten Lectures on U.S. Art, Culture | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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