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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...
...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...
...American Uplift...
...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...
...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...