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...University of the Congressional investigations of 1953 was the danger that the charges preferred and publicized by Committee members might undermine the confidence of the University's alumni in its faculty, and that the ancient freedom of this institution might be destroyed from within by suspicion and distrust. It was, indeed, precisely to the suspicion and distrust of Harvard's graduates that the investigators openly appealed. The fact that the alumni, as a body, disappointed these hopes and stood firmly behind the University's policies as developed by its responsible authorities is a tribute to the Board of Overseers. Because...
...Crooked Atoms. The result, contained in a series of brilliant pamphlets, was to make coherent policy out of the deep distrust which Tories felt for the new Socialism. Rab replanted the sturdy old roots of Toryism in modern soil. The guiding principles of his philosophy were 1) a belief in the divine origin of the human personality, and 2) a faith in Christian ethics. Rab denied the cynical Marxist view of British history as the selfish struggle of classes; he saw it as a long odyssey of the individual toward the fullest expression of himself, in which each tradition...
...serving in any sort of civil-defense capacity while other American soldiers were fighting elsewhere was enough to bring bellows of rage from doughty Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 66, longtime president of the National Guard Association. Walsh knew that behind Hannah's faint praise lay basic distrust of the peacetime Guard: Hannah is convinced that many Guard outfits are shot through with political officers, overaged officers, incompetents, and youths who joined up to avoid the draft. Challenged Walsh: "If they want war, let it begin here."* Then he really warmed up: "If the distinguished savant from Michigan...
...Fears & Hesitations. In France, the opponents of EDC and the damners-with-faint-praise are motivated by a weird variety of fears and hesitations. Some despise and distrust Germany, and that overrides everything else; some (including Premier Joseph Laniel, who has made a career these past seven months of political survival) think of EDC as a dose of unpleasant medicine, to be stalled off as long as possible; some think that French sovereignty and pride outweigh considerations of security; some want to toy with the alternatives, or get more concessions-notably, German concessions on the Saar and U.S.-British guarantees...
...seems safe enough until the Preacher comes to Cresap's Landing. In no time he woos and wins the widow Harper. John shows an animal distrust for this strange new father with the letters L-O-V-E tattooed on the fingers of his right hand and H-A-T-E on the left. Once the war of nerves is joined, Author Grubb piles horror on tension, chapter by chapter, till the Preacher meets an end as vicious as himself...