Word: civilizations
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...rights may be a hotter issue before the Democratic Convention than after it. The image of Texan Lyndon Johnson as a Southerner is the biggest single roadblock between him and the nomination. If Johnson is not the Democratic nominee (and the odds as of now are against him), the civil rights issue may be pretty well neutralized. Nixon has spoken out forthrightly for civil rights progress, says that the goal is "equality of opportunity for all Americans." Humphrey, Kennedy and Symington all have unspotted voting records on civil rights. All three Senators (and Johnson too) back the Democratic plan...
Biggest educational spurt is among U.S. Negroes. In 1940 only 8% of nonwhite adults had completed high school; last year 20% had done so. And while 80% of nonwhites were illiterate just after the Civil War (and Negro emancipation), the figure is now sharply down...
Since almost everyone agrees on what happened and why, the writing of Civil War history becomes increasingly an exercise in orchestration. Authors turn out regional cantatas along the lines of Moriaghan's Civil War on the Western Border, surging tone poems in the manner of Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, or elegiac symphonies such as Freeman's sonorous...
This new book by Bruce Catton, a veteran composer on Civil War themes (A Stillness at Appomattox] represents the second movement in a planned symphonic trilogy on Ulysses S. Grant. It is scored for the gentle woodwinds of camp life and hearthside as well as for the big brasses and percussion of battle. Taking over the work begun by the late Lloyd Lewis with Captain Sam Grant (1950), Author Catton deals with Grant's astonishing growth in two years from hesitant commander to superb tactician...
...Broadway The Andersonville Trial. With overtones of Nuremberg, the play re-creates the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the camp for Union prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. Playwright Saul Levitt ultimately fails to search out the moral issue he raises; but the courtroom battle, theatrically charged by Director Jose Ferrer, makes a better-than-average evening of theater...