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...this willingness to brave personal purgatories in the interests of others which has kept him serving the Boston Community Fund in spite of age and his horror of the "inspirational talk." Though he talked of resigning, he will probably stay on in the president's job for a while longer-he has a rare talent and Boston still covets...
Cautious skepticism, rather than hope, dictated the organist's choice of an overture. It was To Each His Own, a marked withdrawal from the brave notes of The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, which opened the first U.N. meeting at San Francisco. As the delegates gathered in the old New York City World's Fair Building at Flushing Meadows, they beheld another omen. Dominating the vast, greenish Assembly Hall was an oddly contorted map of the world (in cartographer's lingo: "a north polar azimuthal equidistant projection") which made the U.S. and Canada look relatively normal...
Harvard men are brave. Harvard men are unique. Harvard is stimulating, confusing, delightful, depressing, liberal, reactionary, dull, entertaining, ad inflnitum. --F. P. L. Nieman...
...first speaker of the evening, Dennett said that there is no brave new world.' "The same actions of practical politics that can be found in Boston today, can be seen on every hand on a larger scale in international affairs," said Dennett who is director of the World Peace Foundation...
...have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. . . . And yet I think it best for you to know that ... I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right...