Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After Bill had tried his hand at several jobs, he and his father decided to build a house on a piece of Long Island property which they hadn't been able to sell. Alfred quit New York University-after telling the dean that the place couldn't teach him anything more-and drew plans for a Tudor-style house. Says father Abe: "Alfred loved to draw, but he didn't know what a two-by-four was." Nevertheless, they sold that first house at a profit-and the Levitts were in the building business for good...
Manhattan-born Meyer Kupferman is a hefty six-footer who decided long ago that he could teach himself how to compose. Some of his work sounds as though was not too far wrong: when he was only 15, his impressionistic Woodwind...
...editorial said: "Mr. Buckley's broadcast is running as a "Crime" because it manages to advocate, in a compact 15 minutes, most of the bad things that could happen to American education. . . It calmly calls for student indoctrination, one-sided curricula, and alumni regulation of what a University may teach...
Under the Mississippi act, a subversive organization is one "which engages in or advocates, abets, advises, or teaches, or a purpose of which is to engage in or advocate, abet, advise, or teach activitie intended to overthrow, destroy, or alter, or to assist in the overthrow, destruction, or alteration of the constitutional form of government of the United States, or of the State of Mississippi ... and to establish in place thereof any form of government the direction and control of which is to be vested in ... the domination or control of any foreign government, organization, or individual; but does...
...Wayne student council voted to let Phillips debate a history professor on "Should a Communist Party member be allowed to teach at an American University?" The student council's approval was relayed to the university's program planning committee, which voted 6 to 3 permission for the debate, subject to veto by Wayne President David D. Henry. On March 28, Henry vetoed...