Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Republican clubs on the nation's college campuses. Wrote MacArthur: "The [Republican] Party has never deviated from the proposition that all political power resides in the people. It has never failed in its staunch advocacy for the maximum of personal freedom." He added: "In youth as in age [MacArthur is 68] there is a continuing responsibility which falls upon every citizen of the republic to ensure good and wise government...
...making a carefully calculated killing. This enabled him, in turn, to tackle the problem of educating his son. Since he could find no school in tune with his own ideas, he founded the Malting House School at Cambridge, a fabulous institution (annual cost per student: $4,000) where children aged four to ten were taught laboratory physics and chemistry before they could read or write. Pyke went back to the stockmarket for additional funds, but this time the professionals ganged up on him. At the age of 34 he was haled into bankruptcy court (assets: $272; liabilities...
...other day, David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, declared that the press, along with radio and the schools, must educate the public to its responsibilities in the atomic age. That is an inescapable challenge. Can the press, the schools, the radio, rise to it? Probably not. Journalism, as an art of communication, is still in its Bronze Age. Its practitioners, including TIME'S editors, don't know enough, and have only rudimentary techniques for communicating what they do know...
Against the easy conscience, Dr. Niebuhr asserted: man is by the nature of his creation sinful; at the height of man's perfection there is always the possibility of evil. Against easy optimism, he asserted that life is inevitably tragic. Says Niebuhr: "Mankind is living in a Lenten age...
World War I ended the age of liberalism. More than half a century before it ended, two men had felt that it was ending. They were Fyodor Dostoevsky and Sören Kierkegaard. Both men were pessimists. To Dostoevsky, the human situation was a tragic drama. To Kierkegaard, it was a tragic argument. Both men felt that the anguish of human experience, the truth of man's nature and God's nature and the relationship of God and man, could be grasped only by a new dimension of perception...