Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books cut across the social sciences, picking a method of treatment out of anthropology and using it to handle a political exposition. He can mingle ideas from psychoanalysis and economics and enrich the result with literary references from Tolstoy, Samuel Butler, Virginia Woolf, Castiglione, Jules Verne, Franz Kafka, St. Augustine, Nietzsche, Kathleen Winsor, E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, Cervantes, Jack London and James Joyce. His books are relatively free of academic jargon, because there is no special lingo that the economists, sociologists and anthropologists have in common; anybody who wants to talk to all of them has to use English...
WITHOUT LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH, I WOULD BEG TO CORRECT YOUR ESTIMATE OF THE LOCAL POPULATION OF VIRGINIA CITY IN THE REVIEW [AUG. 30] OF MY "COMSTOCK COMMOTION" FROM 2,450 TO THE ACTUAL 4OO. YOUR FIGURE SOUNDS BETTER, BUT IT ALSO GIVES US LESS FAVORABLE SALOON-TO-POPULATION RATIO. OUR 17 SALOONS FOR 4OO INHABITANTS, WE BELIEVE, IS THE GREATEST DENSITY IN THE U.S., AND WE DON'T WANT IT MISREPRESENTED...
TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA CITY...
...Virginia's Sixth (Roanoke), Ninth (Bristol) and Tenth (Alexandria) Districts. In 1952, with Eisenhower's popularity running high in the South and U.S. Senator Harry Byrd on the fence in the presidential contest, three Republicans slipped into these Democratic seats. This year, Byrd's Democratic machine is running on all cylinders behind the Democratic candidates. The Republicans are in trouble. (In contrast, Representative Charles Raper Jonas, the first Republican to be elected in North Carolina's Tenth District [Charlotte] in 24 years, has a good chance to be re-elected...
...Only at Army-supervised schools at Ft. Meyer and Ft. Belvoir did Negro children crack Virginia's ban on public-school desegregation. Roman Catholic parochial schools in the state accepted about 60 Negro pupils without incident...