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With donations and pledges at a low ebb, the Radcliffe Community Service Fund Drive chairman yesterday announced a new effort to secure a "decent, final amount...
Your review of Mr. Hutchins' Great Conversation [Sept. 21] points up the end of an era. Adler and Hutchins were the great reactionaries of philosophy at a time when it had reached a low ebb. Flying against the strong winds of experimentalism, their banner of Platonism called the unbeliever to return to the ancient modes of thought. Standing almost alone at times, they did us and the country a very real service...
...Personal religion, and understanding of and participation in the work of the Church, could apparently in many earlier generations be taken for granted. Latterly, they have tended to ebb away in the all but universal adoration of the state, and in almost idolatrous preoccupation with the secular order, the accumulation of knowledge, and with good works. There is not and cannot be a quarrel with any of these things in themselves, but only with the notion that they are independently sufficient goods...
...advantage of the mess to harass France for more and faster independence than France could sensibly give. The truce was on the way in Korea, freeing Communism to turn its attention and resources on the war that Korea had overshadowed. Their fortunes and their spirits at a dismally low ebb, the leaders of France were seriously wondering whether to cut their lines and pull out the one plug that was blocking Asian Communism from flooding through to Burma, Siam, and probably all Southeast Asia...
Most of all, a period of cold peace-what Stalin called "an ebb in the revolutionary tide"-would give the new men in the Kremlin time to settle down...