Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans tried to get him to collaborate. Said he: "A concentration camp is not an argument." Later he managed to escape by masquerading as a French schoolteacher, hid out in various French monasteries. He spoke a few times before refugee groups. One night, in the crypt of a big Lyon church, he told the Bishop of Metz and 1,500 fellow Lorrainers: "Hitler is lost! You may be sure of that." After that, the Nazis put a price on his head. Friends who knew him before the war now find him subtly changed. Schuman, the Premier, has more warmth than...
...financial "City" of London and the graduates of British universities elect their own M.P.s*. Last week, Morrison admitted that he could never think of the ancient City of London "without having in my veins some degree of emotion," but: "I am sorry ... I just cannot think of an argument for preserving the City's representation...
Churchill had a better argument for the university constituencies: "They dignify and widen the whole course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...
Mesmer & Magnetism. Hypnotism has been inspiring public interest and noisy argument ever since the days, in 18th Century Paris, when Franz Anton Mesmer developed his controversial technique. It was first called mesmerism and then hypnotism (from a Greek word meaning sleep). In Mesmer's day, "magnetism" was the scientific catchword that "atomic" is today. Mesmer had already been kicked out of his native Vienna for acting on his belief that people got sick when they ran short of "magnetic fluid." He was out to show Paris that he could relieve the shortage. The Mesmer clinics are described...
...unarticulated premise, then, the Administration's argument considers the political coloring of what is to be said in the magazine. It leaves untouched the most important single aspect of magazine publishing. The Deans have broken no paths and set no guideposts in denying a group of Harvard undergraduates the right to use their organization's name in their magazine. The Council should recommend a reversal as soon as possible...