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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A newsman asked: "Do you consider that the American Government has lost face in China because of recent developments?" The question was broad enough to touch another sore point: U.S. helplessness over the shabby treatment of Consul General Angus Ward (TIME, Nov. 21 et seq.). Acheson flushed with anger. He...
The result, said Berlin, is that scholars and intellectuals find they can no longer believe in their scholarly or intellectual pursuits for their own sake. "Once a community automatically begins to consider disinterested curiosity as being something idle, time-wasting, self-indulgent and, therefore, immoral, it is in a very...
Hilton's only recent flops have been in resort hotels. (He does not consider the Caribe Hilton primarily a resort hotel.) "Whenever you see an offer of a 'Hotel in the Pines,'" says he, "stay away from it." He bought the Palm Beach Biltmore, was glad to...
Unfortunately, in its concern for solving these specific problems, the Dean's Office has failed to evolve any comprehensive philosophy of student rights. Consider the freedoms student groups have lost since before the war. They have lost the freedom to take any action outside Cambridge without Dean's Office permission...
This pattern has been for the Dean's Office to take on responsibilities which in the thirties were assumed to belong to the student groups. Tomorrow's editorial, the last in this series, will consider whether this assumption of responsibility--and the right to supervision and control which is derived...