Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sternberg falls down in the crucial section of his treatise in transferring the historical treatment to a practical program While he is quite sure that the old capitalism is doomed. Sternberg's prognostication is clouded by his own uncertainties of the future. The flaws of Sternberg's own blueprints allow little optimism on the coming crisis...
...before registration, has continued to do so. Despite all the publicity, picturing in graphic detail the present difficulty in obtaining books, a few wilful men continue to act as if 1947 were 1938. The pipeline between publisher and student is slowly filling but, it still does not allow for complacency from those who decide what their student's reading will be for the following term. There just aren't enough books to go around in the unprecedented rush for the colleges. In many cases, the question is one of beating the other fellow to the publisher...
...people of the world have placed their hopes for peace in the United Nations; but for the next few years the U.N. will be playing Goldilocks in a small corner of the stage while the three bears gambol madly in front of the footlights. If the jealous stars should allow their misunderstandings to lead to open violence, their fury would destroy the stage, theater, and all, and little Goldilocks would never have a chance to strut her stuff...
Among the Faculty, whose constant contact with newly discovered facts and changing trends of thought keeps a shiny finish on the surface of their philosophy (and they continue to allow their intellectual differences to keep them from uniting on practical organization of their departments...
Here, it is presumed that idealism does and should exist, and it is admired even though it be imperfect or naive. One espouses it the more fiercely when he observes the conditions which allow it to die. Idealists are sometimes wrong, but always right...