Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole trend was given sudden impetus and perspective by the announcement that Dr. S. Roy Heath '39 was leaving his Princeton post ...His leaving pointed up to many students the rather large educational gap that seemed to exist on the campus between faculty and students and between administration and students...
...inescapable result is drift. And it is drift away from the association of free nations which cannot exist without us, and without which we cannot exist as [a] nation. We come back to where we started-to the President. The decisions are his. Helped by his advisers, ultimately he must decide. The volume of work which should be done is appalling. It cannot be got through by listening to oral presentations, or "briefings," or reading one-page memoranda. It has to be sweated out. The facts have to be mastered, the choices and their consequences understood-so far as consequences...
...should be required reading in schools. It should be publicized from one end of the State to the other. . . . The facts which McMillan describes should be a source of deep shame to every resident of the Palmetto State, not so much because the conditions as he describes them exist, but because we are, for the most part, totally ignorant of them...
...always railing at the indifferents for not taking part in politics. Anxious to conform, the indifferent finds a group- but remains at heart an indifferent. Vetogroup leaders can manipulate the indifferents, but usually for negative, not positive, ends. "By their very nature," says Riesman, "the veto groups exist as defense groups, not as leadership groups." Each group has "a power to stop things conceivably inimical to its interests, and, within far narrower limits, a power to start things...
...coexistence is that we have, in fact, been coexisting with Communism for the past 35 years. But another and more significant point is that a good many countries such as the Baltic States. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ... which coexisted with the U.S.S.R. for some years, now have ceased to exist at all as free nations. Coexistence is no problem for them. It has become the coexistence of Jonah and the whale that swallowed...