Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the liberal spirit in the world at large is in deadly peril. Every student at Yale should be impressed with the conviction that only through the spread of the liberal attitude in life can the nation find protection from an obscurantist reaction on the one hand or a blind revolution on the other...
...liberal Bishop Parsons (and a persistent stadium echo which parroted him, always a phrase behind), are the Totalitarian State, "a transient affair," and the rise of the underprivileged classes, "born of the gospel of Christ.'' That the latter has often gone astray. said the Bishop, should not blind Christians to the fact of the Kingdom of God "... a free fellowship of the children of God ... in [which] every child of God has worth which transcends any economic order. He is not a mere cog in a great industrial machine, his labor a mere commodity. In the vision...
...long since fallen, and a feeling of vague satisfaction about the football situation--what, as we have said with all these mingled elements the lights of Gotham presented a somewhat unfamiliar picture. We managed to get around a couple of the rotaries and then after a few moments of blind flying found ourselves inexplicably and inextricably in Central Park. A friendly soul had told us that the third right would bring us out but the third right seemed to be mainly sidewalk and the fourth right was distinctly a stone wall...
...this day and age when women and children are ruthlessly slaughtered in the streets by death-dealing bombs and the poisonous gases, and when the world is racked by the blind passions of men stirred to mad frenzy by demagogues of Fascism and Comunionism, there is a great need for sound thinking, and intelligent application of Christian ideals. If these lecturers can give us a practical slant on the solutions of the problems of today, they will have been extremely valuable...
...have fought their way through Harvard under adverse conditions. Among cases that have recently come to light is that of Ralph L. Thompson '38, of Woburn, who is going to be selling magazine subscriptions this Fall. At first sight few would realize that Thompson, a regularly enrolled Senior, is blind. He does not want a dog to aid him because he feels that there would be no point in getting around if he could not get around by himself...