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...prove economically feasible, in a public, noncommercial system; from Carnegie, he took the idea of strengthening regional program-production centers and local stations as a guarantee of diversity. "I am convinced," he said, "that a vital and self-sufficient noncommercial television system will not only instruct but inspire and uplift our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Marking Time | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...including Historian Charles Beard, Philosopher James Harvey Robinson and Economists Wesley Mitchell and Alvin Johnson-who felt that Columbia limited their freedom to teach unconventional courses and express unpopular views. By the early '30s, the New School had gained a certain vogue as a center of night-school uplift for left-wing intellectuals. It acquired new academic respectability in the mid-'30s by creating a "University in Exile" on the talents of about 50 European scholars who had fled fascism in Germany and Italy and formed a Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New School for Old Students | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...American Uplift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...wish of women around the world to adopt the "American bosom." A friend from England told me that during the war her G.I. boy friend had his mother send her a box of American lingerie. Her figure became an instant attraction as soon as she began wearing her uplift bra, which with care and patching lasted three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...University of Mississippi, frail, introverted James H. Meredith has felt a messianic call. In a recent book about his Ole Miss experiences, Meredith, now a Columbia University law student, maintains: "Whether it was true or not, I had always felt that I could stop a mob with the uplift of a hand. Because of my 'divine responsibility' to advance human civilization, I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Heat on Highway 51 | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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