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...lecture, James reminded his listeners: "What [democracy's] critics now affirm is that its preferences are inveterately for the inferior . . . Vulgarity enthroned and institutionalized, elbowing everything superior from the highway, this, they tell us, is our irremediable destiny; and the picture-papers of the European Continent are already drawing Uncle Sam with the hog instead of the eagle for his heraldic emblem...
...week's end Khrushchev's rocketrattling support of Castro's Cuba struck Eisenhower as a threat that demanded a fast reply. "I affirm in the most emphatic terms that the U.S. will not be deterred from [its] responsibility by the threats Mr. Khrushchev is making," said he. "Nor will the U.S., in conformity with its treaty obligations, permit the establishment of a regime dominated by international Communism in the Western Hemisphere...
...Christian is entitled to believe only in what is humanly possible. We have to affirm-and really mean it-that 'with men it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' And this is why the dialogue is important; not because we know what will come of it, but precisely because we do not know what may come...
Attacking the issue of Federal aid, it continues, "We find it necessary to affirm our belief in the desirability and, indeed, the absolute necessity of Federal aid to American higher education." The objectionable provisions in the NDEA, the report points out, are not "inevitable concomitants of Federal monies...
...against the "loyalty oath," and the obvious widespread student agreement with the same indicate an unusually common attitude toward the current issue. There is no controversy as there was two years ago and, consequently no real action. That is to say that since we all individually believe in, and affirm the rightness of opposition to the loyalty oath, we feel that our personal moral responsibilities have been met. But does not a social life entail social responsibilities--even for Harvard students? That a majority (as measured by Congressional action) of the nation outside of Harvard is in solid support...