Mississippi DAR praised for anti UN books stance
A Mississippi columnist recalls the Daughters of the American Revolution condemning certain UN authors and works as pro Communist. The piece cites Dorothy Canfield Fisher Shirley Graham and Henry Steele Commanger and urges readers to question their use in schools.
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Book Review on Realism in Early American Literature
A study of realism's rise in American fiction focusing on Norris Crane London Glasgow and Dreiser. It uses Freudian analysis for Norris Crane London and a historical approach for Glasgow and Dreiser. Key points discuss Oedipal fixations in Norris and Crane and London's Darwinian existential terror and self-destructive end. Continued on Page 2.
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Stephen Crane
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Ellen Glasgow
Theodore Dreiser
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Dreiser
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Witches Mount Brooms Today in Jackson
Mississippi public school textbooks deemed unsatisfactory by the D A R will be shown in public displays at Hotel Edward in Jackson from February 25 to 27, then moved February 29 to the Library on the state capitol's second floor for March 5. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Public invited to review the D A R Textbook Evaluation Program materials.
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Ralph McGill on Lincoln’s Meaning and Southern Moderates Today
Ralph McGill surveys the Southern moderate position after the 1954 school decision. He argues that moderates faced abuse and that dialogue faltered, while law and constitutional primacy shaped progress. He cautions against anti federalist myths and defends Supreme Court rulings as lawful interpretations.
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