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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "sweet reasonableness and a curious kind of fuzzy sportsmanship have conditioned us to believe that truth necessarily lies in the middle. I shall continue to speak in defense of the central issues of Catholic doctrine and discipline, the central postulates of faith and reason in an academic context...
...bottom quarter" of the Junior Class did not fail this examination. Sixty-seven took the exam. Of these, fourteen received a grade of "distinction," 26 a grade of "pass," 15 a grade of "marginal pass" and 12 a grade of "fail." The term "fail," of course, means in this context "below B" since the purpose of the examination is to determine a man's qualifications for honors work in the senior year. As one of the four examiners, newly appointed, who wrote and graded the examination I can assure you that setting up what you call a "loaded" examination...
...they sat in their quiet rooms, Dulles and Henderson considered Syria in the context of a body of evidence that Communist diplomacy, for all of Communism's interior weakness, was setting forth upon some showy new adventures. The Communists have proclaimed a test-model 3,500-mile missile, tested nuclear weapons, broken off months-old disarmament talks in London, sent light cruisers into the Mediterranean, shipped obsolete arms into Syria. Loy Henderson's specific point was that the Russians are so persistently brandishing the threat of force before impressionable Arabs that the U.S. has to convince the Arabs...
...above all, the result of deliberate policy and must be countered by deliberate policy. What is needed in the West to fight Communism's "dialectic unity of offense and defense" is total struggle. Chiang's occasionally inept translators render it as "total war," but from the context it is obvious that this is not what he means. On the contrary: the West's position is rendered too cumbersome, too defensive by its preoccupation with hydrogen war. Russia wants the West to think "that if there is going to be no nuclear war, there is not going...
...Christian vision must therefore be translated into terms which will have connotations appropriate to the contemporary context, and this translation has not been accomplished. It must rid itself of what applied only in the ancient world and must come armed against the idolatries of the twentieth century, not the first century...