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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend, Oilman Edwin Pauley. Symington moved easily among guests ranging from Frank Sinatra to Hotelman Conrad Hilton. But he also spent a long while in private, animated conversation with Host Pauley, whose wealth and whose influence as Harry Truman's top West Coast follower are Symington's best hopes for striking California pay dirt...
With their more or less approving students, these prominent professors form a potent group that likes to refer to itself as "liberal." But some of its more forthright members, such as Professor Sam Beer, openly describe their philosophy as "radical democracy," and the group as a whole might best be called the Respectable Radicals...
Harvard's dominant majority, however, stand firmly behind the "moderate liberalism" of both major parties. As "Northern Democrats" or "Modren Republicans," they silently support the stock solution to a growing list of problems: call on Washington. Of course, Federal action may be the best (and in some cases, the only) solution to many modern-day challenges--but this is not the point. That this stock answer and similar slogans are passively accepted by many "moderate liberals"--often without intellectual study of the economic and political implications involved for our society, but in smug and self-satisfied silence --this...
...toward organized religion. Check the one that most nearly approximates your views. 9 The Church is the one sure and infallible foundation of civilized life. Every member of society ought to be educated in it and required to support it. 201 On the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life, although certain minor errors and shortcomings are necessarily apparent in it, as in all human institutions. 63 While the intentions of most individual Church members are no doubt good, the total influence of the Church may be on the whole harmful. I do not feel...
...convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings! And a substantial majority, though naturally denying the orthodox of the Incarnation, still feel that "Christ should be regarded ... as a very great prophet or teacher." "Whether or not he lived, many of his teachings are well worthwhile...