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...this confidence we speak plainly to all peoples. We cherish our friendship with all nations that are or would be free. We respect, no less, their independence. We honor the aspirations of those nations which, now captive, long for freedom...
There has never been a time in this country when we did not cherish, support, and seek to advance the opportunities for larger knowledge and clearer vision, for training young minds to love learning and to use it for human betterment. Two examples will serve to suggest the whole. In 1636 the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay appropriated a quarter of their tax levy "towards a schoale or colledge." In 1862 the members of Congress by passing the Morrill Act gave impetus to the whole system of publicly supported institutions of higher learning in the United States...
...Yokohama aboard another Navy transport. On the dock, a G.I. band played I Love You Truly and the Marine Corps Hymn. From the upper decks, the wives waved, blew kisses, wept. As the ship got ready to sail, the passengers suddenly unfurled paper signs: "Pate's Paupers," "Love, Cherish and Be Transferred," "Un-American," "Shanghaied." The most cutting of all was a sign emblazoned with the abbreviation of the Marine slogan, "Semper Fi"; next to it was a picture of what Americans in ordure-treasuring Asia called a "honey bucket...
...almost no place to turn except Copenhagen, where the Royal Danish Ballet spun comfortably on its 200-year-old tradition, rarely ventured into the outside world (TIME, Aug. 31, 1953). But last week the Danes were in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, and provided crowds with something to cherish for years to come...
...course, old enough to be Dominique's father. What makes their liaison inevitable is that they both fear the binding emotions of real love like a plague and hence, in Author Sagan's Sartrian thinking, respect each other's freedom. Both cherish isolated moments of intense sensation, encountered rather like chance oases in the desert journey of what they regard as life's everyday meaninglessness. After one passionate week on the Riviera stretches into two, Dominique finds that she cannot hand Luc back to his wife in quite the airy way in which she took...