Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteen years, a war, a police action, and 12½ million men after Secretary of War Henry Stimson pulled No. 158 out of the jar, young U.S. men are still being drafted into the armed forces-and the draft remains a subject for controversy. Last week, with selective service scheduled to expire June 30, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy moved against simmering congressional end-the-draft sentiment, asked for a four-year extension...
...Subject: Patron Saints...
Europe itself is the subject most painstakingly studied. Field trips-to Rome for art and architecture, to Berlin for political science-fill in the outlines of classroom lectures. Three-day weekends during the summer and fall allow long freelance forays. "There was." according to one report, "a definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera...
...first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, he picks the bones of some old people's lives in whispers. Yet Poorhouse is less concerned with old age than with the clash between the bloodless ideal of social perfectibility and the pungent humanity of the old Adam. On this subject Author Updike's whispers are sibilant with meaning...
...this volume, lilac time lasts barely two years (with a few extensions), from March 1933 to the end of 1934. Originally. The Age of Roosevelt was to have been a one-volume job. but Harvard's Historian Schlesinger became so fascinated with his subject that he now expects he may need four or more volumes before he can complete his monument to F.D.R. Like the first volume. The Crisis of the Old Order (TIME, March n, 1957). this one relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written...