Word: clamorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious consequences of the pressures of this period of rearmament is the diversion of scholars to immediate problems. Partial mobilization has accentuated the trend toward overemphasis on the practical which is a consequence of the type of society in which we live. For example, in the biological sciences the clamor is for a cure for cancer rather then an understanding of the processes of growth normal and abnormal. In the physical sciences some of our best men are now spending long hours on military problems. This is a national necessity, but a loss to the advance of science. Technology...
...remained untroubled by the hanging of John Brown. Like many another Northerner, he rallied to Lincoln not because he hated slavery but because he loved the Union. He had hoped for compromise, but once he became convinced that the South meant to secede, his pages blazed with patriotic clamor and invective against the rebels...
...from which it can never diverge." Although the statement also deplored stereotyped religious art, Vatican spokesmen admitted that it was aimed principally at modern artists who find church decoration a new and challenging technical medium. Wrote Archbishop Celso Costantini: "We are at present in a Babel of art ... The clamor caused by Matisse decorating the chapel of Vence has not yet died down . . . Chagall would like to paint a Catholic chapel . . . and Picasso has been toying with the idea of decorating a Communist chapel-... It is high time to unmask the pretenses of this false art which simply consists...
When National Chairman Guy Gabrielson approached Hoover, amid the clamor, to present him with a gold medal of appreciation, tears started in the old man's eyes. Finally the sound died down, the convention went on. Mr. Hoover walked slowly to the rear of the platform, his medal pinned on his coat, and eased himself down on a chair with the air of a man whose work is finally done...
London's Sunday Observer was set to add its voice to the critical clamor until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed...