Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neutralization. From the start, Education Minister André Boulloche, a convinced laïque, has been at odds with Premier Debré. Boulloche insisted that his ministry have almost complete control over any school that accepted state aid, refused even to tolerate crucifixes and robes. Enraged, Culture Minister André Malraux turned on Boulloche, snapped: "Neutralization in teaching does not exist." At one point, De Gaulle firmly reminded his quarreling ministers, "We are no longer under the Fourth Republic," warned them that an impasse in the Cabinet could sweep it out of office. To Boulloche he said, "I understand your...
...Russell then be disciplined? Some 35 teachers at U.C.L.A. and Santa Monica City College rose to her defense in an angry petition charging "a breach of academic freedom." Said Florence Russell: "If reminding students of their rightful literary heritage is an offense, then I have offended. I refuse to accept blame for anything else...
Basically a Republican newspaper, the Star does not accept a liberal or conservative label, always reserves the right to cross party lines. Roy Roberts was one of the first Eisenhower-for-President crusaders in 1952 and still stands firmly behind Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. But the Star has taken strong exception to some Eisenhower Administration policies (it called for the resignation of John Foster Dulles long before he became ill), and last year it enthusiastically supported the re-election of Kansas City's Democratic Congressman Richard Boiling...
...Alas, the version of the Nevil Shute chiller (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957) that Stanley (The Defiant Ones) Kramer has produced and directed turns out to be a sentimental sort of radiation romance, in which the customers are considerately spared any scenes of realistic horror, and are asked instead to accept the movie notion of what is really horrible about the end of the world: boy (Gregory Peck) does not get girl (Ava Gardner...
...this atmosphere, an Australian girl (Gardner) and a U.S. submarine captain (Peck) fall in love. But Greg cannot let himself go with Ava because, even though he knows his wife and kiddies are dead along with everybody else in North America, "I can't accept it." Ava runs off to find consolation with a scientist fellow (Fred Astaire). "I have nobody," she sobs. "I'm afraid...