Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subscriptions, one for each student, out of the school budget. The day the first copies came, she went through them page by page with her students. Soon the students began to argue-so vigorously that Mrs. Levine asked them to push their chairs into a huge circle against the wall (see cut) so that the debaters could look one another in the eye while voicing their opinions...
...tolerance for the other's views. In the two classes I attended today, the students discussed the French crisis, Billy Graham, TIME'S movie reviews, nuclear testing (violent disagreement), Dick Nixon, and Bill Knowland (violent disagreement here, too) . . . Twenty-five TIME covers are displayed on the back wall...
...Wall Street Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., called for a tax cut of $5 billion or more as the real spur to economic activity. Such a cut, said Alexander, "is the course of prudence in today's circumstances. Our economy is as much a weapon in the struggle for survival as our rockets and our missiles...
...jail, has been marked for death as one of the guilty who directed the massacre of a whole French village called Montpelle (which calls to mind France's nonfictional Oradour-Sur-Glane). To the French Left he becomes a martyr, and "Liberez Dujardin" is scrawled on every wall in Paris. Only the evidence of Stone, who is now symbolical of the dead (he is now with the United States Army Graves Registration), can prove that Dujardin is. in fact, no martyr but a traitor. This should make Stone a hero in his own right, but, as Humes tells...
...Capp feels that there is such a thing as a single "Harvard type." When one says "Harvard man" in a comic strip, according to Capp, a particular image immediately occurs to the reader. The public has fixed ideas, and "just as the Bowery stands for a bum or Wall Street stands for high finance, the name of Harvard stands for something--a sort of confused superiority...