Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chronological bunching is highly significant. It, of itself, suggests two historical developments: First, that the fears and suspicions which followed the two World Wars have offered the most intense and sustained challenges to intellectual freedom that the nation has suffered. Second, that educators have become increasingly articulate on this subject...
...best popular scientific literature is written by scientists who having a command of their subject to begin with, learn to express their thoughts in prose clear and simple enough that the average person can understand it; in short, they successfully "write down" to their reader. Possibly the worst science writing is the reverse of this process; a journalists or some other unqualified commentator "writes up" to a subject, trying to explain to the reader something that he himself only vaguely understands. In "Cancer", Bewa Doherty attempts just such a feat and fails rather miserably...
...general subject of cancer and the patient, the authoress is a little more competent--not because she knows any more about doctor-patient relations in cancer but because the element of drama which the interjects is more apropos to hospital scenes than to the laboratory. But her tear jerking little stories about women who are too modest to submit to examination and girls who must lose their ovaries are overly melodramatic. Such writing might increase the popular fear of cancer rather than control...
...subject of their debate was: "Resolved, That a woman's education is a waste of time." The Crimson debaters took the affirmative, arguing that women existed solely to propagate the species and to attend to the wants...
...great distinction between the majority of these countries and the United States, of course, is that their radio stations are subject to direct government control. This means program planners can give listeners what they ought to have rather than what they want, without fear of detrimental consequences. In this country, few sponsors have the courage to sponsor a direct form of education because they know their chances of holding listeners are better if they give away ice-boxes or tell how a woman can enjoy life beyond...