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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another part of this report, there is a plea for distribution courses that will stress "values and standards." To see how this idea has been borne out in action we need only to look at one of the General Education Courses now taught on the Freshman level--"Individual and Social Values in History, Drama, Fiction, and Philosophy," better known as Humanities...

Author: By Robert E. Herzstein, | Title: 'Student's View' Helps University Form Policy | 5/10/1950 | See Source »

...election years, Congressmen operate by a kind of law of political physics; they seldom rise above the level of the political sump pumps back home. Last week the House of Representatives gurgled along under the pressure of assorted builders, Chambers of Commerce and veterans' organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Sump Pumps | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...printed a terse apology from No. 3. Then, within their central committee, the comrades rehashed the issue in hot & heavy argument. The solution: a statement reproving Shiga but leaving him still in his influential post. Japan's lesser comrades looked on, baffled and bewildered by the complex top-level schism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Red Schism | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...attempting so much, The Big Lift becomes overlong and somewhat unwieldy. But where the picture really goes wrong, and badly, is in having Douglas spout repeated primer-level sales talks for democracy at his girl friend; the result is clumsy propaganda in a movie that would be excellent propaganda without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...written in 18th Century idiom, Sinclair shows that though he may no longer be capable of striking Oil! he still has craft and subtlety enough to rig a strong derrick and drill some telling holes in the seamier sides of U.S. life. Not that his plumbings achieve any new level, for in Another Pamela, as "in almost everything he has written, Sinclair sticks close to his favorite theme: the way of life of the wealthy and the power that money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parody in Pink | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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