Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Mr. John Leonard concerning one Morris, which appeared in your most recent issue: Mr. Leonard seems to be laboring under the same delusion as Mr. Frank Norris when he said, "We want life, not literature" (and probably succeeded in giving us neither). In order to affirm and support his contention regarding over-formalism in the teaching of letters at Harvard, Mr. Leonard laments the eclipse of Thomas Wolfe, who, it is affimed, had Something to Say. I am at present re-reading Look Homeward Angel: mere plot will not do! There is a prevalent cliche that writers like James...
...bureaucratic interference with science, leading to loss of freedom by scientists and universities, and of bureaucratic lassitude." But the committee warned that NIH should not go on expanding research inside its own walls, which now house 6,700 employees, including 900 M.D.s and Ph.D.s. Instead, it should boost its support to outside institutions...
Even after settling with the Inquirer last month, the Teamsters continued to give firm support to the Guild, refused to cross its picket line to go back to work. The Teamsters thereby limited the Inquirer to lobby sales averaging 19,000 v. normal circulation...
ABROAD new U.S. foreign-investment program is taking form in Washington. Even as fresh opposition to the foreign aid and reciprocal trade programs showed itself in Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the State Department was busy last week on a program that every businessman and Congressman could support. The aims: 1) get other countries to shoulder more of the development burden now borne by U.S. foreign aid; 2) shift from giveaway aid programs to revolving loans; 3) encourage private investment and sound fiscal and monetary policies in countries that now dissipate U.S. help by bad housekeeping...
...detergent sales. But the trustbusters held that All should not have been sold to any of the soap industry's Big Three-Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive or Lever. Said Justice Department Antitrust Chief Victor Hansen: "We aim to protect competition, not the competitor; to support the process, no matter who gets hurt or who benefits...