Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduation in 1919 until 1924 when he became a Harvard Square tutor. He quite frankly admits that these years were not successful. "A group of men had a good idea," he says. "What they wanted to do was to set up a market along the lines of the present super markets. But after a short time we found we didn't have enough finance to continue so I gave up and went into teaching...
Last year's target for super-patriotic clodhoppers was the Pasadena school superintendent, who apparently was not sufficiently versed in the benefits of the Three R's campaign. This year discord grew from use of a booklet printed by the U.N. which suggests ways a teacher might best explain the United Nations Educational, Social, and Cultural Organization...
...Angeles schools found it handy, but to the leagues, legions, and committees it was a stark example of red infiltration. The battlecry sounded, and from all parts of the state the super-patriots came, brandishing their copies of McCarthyism (the Senator's version) and denouncing...
...militant groupthink is obvious--the frustrations of war and a love of certainty, a love that all too easily fastens on to the values of the good old days-and no one can do much about it. Its successes, few though they may be, are another matter, for the super-patriots are a small minority, and it is only the fears and apathy of the majority that allows them to exist...
...extremes would inevitably threaten the moderates' freedom as well. The answer is the simple one that a democracy has always afforded to citizens: counterpressure, provided by the majority, only public realization of freedom's worth in education all public pressure to protect that freedom can rid communities of super-patriot footholds...