Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Misconceived Salvation. Of one thing he was certain: that fear is a poor teacher. Men began to fear the bomb from the moment they first heard about it-a fear fed by radio broadcasts, newspaper reports and magazine articles. The effect of these shivery reports-though not their purpose-was "to make the mysterious and the horrible even more mysterious and horrible...
Those twenty-four hours are only the jumping off place for a flood of reminiscence that yields fifty-two flashbacks and several of the main lines of story. John Wickliff Shawnessy, a mid-century, mid-continent teacher-idealist-poet is the protagonist, and his life seems to represent the shadowy outlines of a larger history...
...Oppressed. In Akron, an eleven-year-old boy admitted to police that he had set fire to his schoolhouse in three places, explained that Teacher James Appleby had made him brush his teeth...
During the course of his main speech and two rebuttals, Barnes insisted that Communists cannot teach or speak without distorting facts and that he could see no good "in permitting a teacher of youth to one whose life is devoted to concealment and distortion of truth, whose aim is the subjugation of mankind to a ruthless dictatorship...
...communist party or who by speech or in writing advocates its doctrines, or who by speech or in writing advocates the overthrow by force, violence or other unlawful or unconstitutional means of the government of the United States or of this commonwealth, shall be employed as a teacher or otherwise in any university, college or school, public or private, or in any position in the educational system of the commonwealth or of any city, town, superintendency, union or country...