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...return to English 10, together with a large increase in the number of upper-level surveys and a memorandum urging all tutors to recommend those courses to their tutees, constitute the Department's attempt to offset the current situation. Bate pointed out that at present many students know so little English literary history that they would be unable to name a single significant author or work in several important 50-year periods...
...McCARTHYISM: "Only the other day I ran into a memorandum I wrote to myself about April 1953. In this memorandum I said: 'I have looked over this matter ever since it's come to my attention, and I am convinced that the way for me to defeat Senator McCarthy is to ignore him. Never to admit that he has damaged me, upset me.' As far as I can recall, I never mentioned his name, and I happen to know that this had a very great effect...
...bluntly: "If you are not very careful, there will be no grandeur. We are a small country, we have been plundered, and our economic base has been largely destroyed. France may become a backwater of Europe." Grumbled De Gaulle: "Well, what do you propose?" In an incisive, seven-page memorandum, Monnet suggested rebuilding France's economy under the guidance of a central committee made up of representatives of labor and management and every French political party. The plan was put into effect in 1947, with Monnet as its chief until 1952; it has since grown into a permanent agency...
...read with great interest your article on the new breed in sportswriters [Sept. 1] , and think you might like to know that the writer who put the "belt" into the story and the Miami sports editor with the antislang memorandum are one and the sameonly wiser...
...final form, the memorandum was written by a task force of State Department and White House experts, with finishing touches penned in by the President. State Department officers submitted a first draft that was "awful," according to one of the Administration's many Harvardmen. Said he: "I wouldn't have come up with it in Government...