Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

He had taken out first papers for American citizenship ; ;

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

There, to the Evening Post, she emphatically denied the divorce rumors and explained that she had stayed behind because of the schooling of their son, which henceforth would be strictly American.

One had it that a friend, protesting her snobbery, said, `` But, Gracie, you are an American, aren't you ''??

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

Gossip had it ( for gossip is the soul of Rome ) that a famous American dancer of the time had paid for both the planes.

Last year, after Trujillo had been cited for numerous aggressions in the Caribbean, the United States and many other members of the Organization of American States broke diplomatic relations with him.

Now, everyone knows -- or knew in the week of December 10 -- that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy.

An earlier but still influential school of painting, surrealism, had suggested the way of dealing with the dream experience, that event in which seemingly incongruous objects are linked together through the curious associations of the subconscious.

And Harry Dexter White, implicated in F.B.I. reports in Communist associations, was one of the architects of the Morgenthau Plan, which had it ever been put into full operation, would have simply handed Germany to Stalin.

Hubbard claimed, in an interview with the New York Times in November 1950, that " he had already submitted proof of claims made in the book to a number of scientists and associations.

However, these associations changed over time, and they did not necessarily mean that the god associated with a place had originated there.

Other important associations including trade unions were forced to merge with the German Labor Front ( Deutsche Arbeitsfront — DAF ), to which all workers had to belong.

During the Gupta period in India ( AD 300M – 600 ), craftmen's associations, which may have had archaic antecedents, were known as shreni.

Guilds were, in other words, small business associations and thus had very little in common with trade unions.

As learning would be affected by prior knowledge and understanding, he needed something that could be easily memorized but which had no prior cognitive associations.

Ultimately, however, lesbian associations have had little influence both on the homosexual and feminist movements.

Michael Buckland, in an article published in 1992, suggested that the memex was severely flawed because Bush did not thoroughly understand information science and had a bad opinion of indices and classification schemes: " Bush thought that the creation of arbitrary associations between individual records was the basis of memory, so he wanted ' mem ( ory -) ex ', or ' Memex instead of index '.

However, despite their name, promotional photographs on the cover of their first album wearing " flower power " style clothes that implied associations with " druggy " music and distorted acid rock-style guitars, the band actually had no associations with that style of music.

Proposals to move to Charing Cross or St James's Park had a similar fate ; the allure of tradition and the historical and political associations of Westminster proved too strong for relocation, despite the deficiencies of that site.

County Polo has had a resurgence in recent years, although the original County Polo Association was formed in 1898 * to look after the interests of the country clubs and to run the County Cup Tournaments ), the three London polo clubs — Hurlingham, Ranelagh and Roehampton — and from all associations within the Empire where polo was being played.

In 1889, French athletics associations had grouped together for the first time and Coubertin founded a monthly magazine La Revue Athletique, the first French periodical devoted exclusively to athletics and modelled on The Athlete, an English journal established around 1862.

His speech met general applause, but little commitment to the Olympic ideal he was advocating for, perhaps because sporting associations and their members tended to focus on their own area of expertise and had little identity as sportspeople in a general sense.

By 1881, civil service reform associations had organized with renewed energy across the nation, including New York.

At the end of the worldwide struggle in 1945, many institutions and associations were found to have withered and only the strongest had survived.

Malden's proposal was bold, as film festivals, critics associations, and the American Film Institute, had already refused to bestow similar honors because of Kazan's testimony given nearly 50 years earlier.

The two associations had played 16 inter-association matches under differing rules ; the Sheffield Rules, the London Rules and Mixed Rules.

The rules and regulations were not uniform, so the Organising Committee had to choose among the codes of the various national athletic associations.

They allow functions that had been primarily or exclusively the responsibility of government to be carried out by businesses, community groups, cooperatives, private voluntary associations, and other non-government organizations.

Jung argued that Freud's procedure of collecting associations to a dream would bring insights into the dreamer's mental complex — a person's associations to anything will reveal the mental complexes, as Jung had shown experimentally — but not necessarily closer to the meaning of the dream.

George exercised the powers of the monarchy just as the Lords Protector had done, but the title's republican associations had rendered it distasteful.