Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...feel it is most definitely coercion to force freshmen to take two, and, in the future, three General Education courses. I feel that this action is all the more unfair and coercive since the University's G.E. courses are so poor. I can, of course, only judge the two I am now in the process of being forced to take...
...have no quarrel with the purposes of General Education. One being the awareness of one's role " . . . as a responsible human being and citizen," the other the restoration of the unity of higher education. The first is not accomplished, and it is to be hoped that most intelligent citizens are aware of their role without General Education. The second is both admirable and desirable. It seems almost too bad it is impossible. Oh, certainly the entire student body could be trained in some one field in order that it might have something in common, but we cannot return...
...blank and weirdly painted native faces; the soundtrack features native drums, beating endlessly; and there are cannibals, shricking animals, and a full complement of snakes, spiders, and other slimy things with legs which crawl. Since the majority of the actors are real natives, their own inscrutability adds to the general air of mystery...
Though it is fleetingly faithful to some ingenious details of guerrilla operations, the picture plays fast & loose with military history. Veterans of the Pacific war may be anachronistically edified, if somewhat surprised, to hear American Guerrilla's naval officers speaking of General Douglas MacArthur with something close to veneration. They also may be heartened to learn that the Leyte landings were as simple as a walk-on. In the film's climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return...
...California, his former employees said Richards not only insisted that causes he favored receive a maximum amount of time on the air but also wanted opposing views minimized or suppressed. Richards' almost daily instructions to his staff were alleged to have included orders on one occasion to make General Bennett Meyers seem...