Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless a minority had a right to express and to advocate its views, the democratic process as we understand it here in America would cease to exist and those in power might remain there indefinitely and make impossible any substantial changes in our social and economic system...
...learned about Lewis' offer from newsmen and reacted to it with the air of a man who will believe it when he sees the color of Lewis' money. Aware of Lewis' insinuation that the Steelworkers could not fend for themselves, he said: "The United Steelworkers of America and [the C.I.O] stand prepared ... to pool their resources for the common defense and general welfare of the labor movement." The Steelworkers are aware that the U.M.W. is itself engaged in a "mighty struggle," Murray added pointedly, and they might well have use for such a defense fund themselves. Cautious...
Then, with a clash of cymbals from the Army band and whir of limousine motors, Pandit Nehru was whirled off for the start of his three-week "voyage of discovery of the mind and heart of America...
...Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should have to see America for the first time...
Worst of all, Burdick thought, was what he called "cultural passivity." In England, he found, there was none of "the rise and fall, the massive brooding anxiety, the creative stabbing of self-doubt, the tortures of ethnic inadequacy that one finds to a marked degree in America and Asia . . ." He doubted very much whether England "could today produce a Shakespeare," but thought America or Asia might...