Word: existences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious doubts exist on Lilienthal's integrity, they should be dispelled by the unequivocal support given him by Secretary of War Patterson, a Republican, and Under-Secretary of State Acheson, as well as by numerous other respected Americans, many of staunch conservative leanings. Furthermore, his statement on democracy, which he links directly with the meaning of religion, was commended nationally by leading newspapers and executives as a laudable definition, one worthy of every American...
...business. Professional sports endeavors have reached up into the million-dollar levels, and salaries and gate receipts have hitched onto a fast-ascending skyrocket. What once passed for friendly "amateur" sport can no longer escape the commercial aroma of its play-for-play brethren, whose breeding grounds must still exist upon the college and school level. Rather than set themselves up in some ivory academic tower, colleges have let the lure of lucre seep down among them, and have usually welcomed with open arms such money-making orgies as the fast-multiplying bowl games on New Year...
...where does idealism exist today at College? At Phillips Brooks House, where the Social Service Committee workers continue to believe that the ordinary citizens of the community and their children will appreciate instruction, entertainment, and help from half-educated college men (but too many volunteers lose their initial enthusiasm too quickly...
Here, it is presumed that idealism does and should exist, and it is admired even though it be imperfect or naive. One espouses it the more fiercely when he observes the conditions which allow it to die. Idealists are sometimes wrong, but always right...
...anti-Christ will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will wear no red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a spear nor wave an arrowed tail as the Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the devil convince men that he does not exist, for he knows that he is never so strong as when men believe that he does not exist...