Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of pius Aeneas calls to mind that of the immortal poet (70-19 B.C.) of whom it was written: "To be a Christian in Vergil's day was like being a Communist today." Ah, well, perhaps it is the wave of the future...
Seed-Time. In 1948 Lysenko got official Communist endorsement for his "theories," which meant that anyone who challenged them was setting himself up against the party. A new wave of dismissals and Siberian imprisonments engulfed rival biologists and geneticists. In 1956, in the period of destalinization, Lysenko suffered partial eclipse. Party chieftains criticized his theories, and official journals exposed reports by his supporters as fakes; many of his victims were rehabilitated and reinstated. Soviet biology began to recover as a science...
Many an unprepared radio listener must have wondered one night this week if he had inadvertently tuned in the private wave length of the vice squad. "I have accounts with manufacturers." a girl was saying in a nasal, defensive tone. "The manufacturer himself calls me directly. I get in contact with two or three of my girl friends, and we discuss the terms. Usually they want a guarantee of $100-more if we give more considerations...
...when the central figures retire, the historians come to life. Frank Friedel, James MacGregor Burns, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. are just the first of what will probably be a long and voluble wave of commentators. Among these academic pioneers in the already furrowed soil, Schlesinger takes the top honors--for scope, for literary ability, and for insight...
...problems. The Council is in the precarious position of having to prove its value to the community, if it is to continue as a recognized undergraduate body with a justification for existence. If there is to be a renaissance of the Council it must come this year on the wave of interest generated by the new appointments...