Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large American city," said the Houston Post (circ. 184,461), "Houston is remarkably free of Communist influences . . . which, from all indications, just do not exist in the city." Schoolteachers have uncomplainingly taken non-Communist oaths; no Houstonians have taken refuge behind the Fifth Amendment before a congressional committee; Houston has neither Red-tinged bookshops nor locally published pink magazines. Nevertheless, said the Post, a "miasmic fear of Communism . . . has permeated Houston." In whispering campaigns, patriotic clergymen, educators and schoolteachers have been denounced as Reds, and meeting halls have been closed to visiting speakers on the ground that they were...
...automobile has been accused of changing the personalities of drivers, and always for the worse. Not so, said Canty -the personality defects come first, and the auto merely affords the driver an opportunity to express hatreds which exist even when he is at home and on his good behavior...
...would mention a booklet to be published this week by S.P.C.K. [the Anglican ' Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge] entitled Infallible Fallacies,'" said the archbishop. "Roman Catholics in this country and wherever churches of the Anglican Communion exist have, as the booklet says, for some time past intensified their propaganda . . . We of the Anglican Communion . . . hate attacking another Christian body as much as many Roman Catholics deplore the constant attacks of their own church upon ours. But these attacks do call for occasional answers . . . and in this new booklet our people will find a reply...
...grown from the exciting idea born out of a "bull session" in Harvard Yard to a sound, stable project doing a practical, tangible, clearly understood job of creating better understanding of America abroad. We do not go to Salzburg and jam America down the Europeans' throats. Chauvinism does not exist in the Seminar's framework. We tell what America stands for to a highly intelligent group of Europeans chosen because they are in a position to mold public opinion. The free democratic teaching at Salzburg is in the traditions of Harvard and we have carefully preserved the ideals handed...
Concluding his address, Wriston said, "The universities and colleges of America are today a manifestation of free interprise in the intellectual world . . . They cannot exist if they are not faithful to liberty...