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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This complaint applies not only to the President but to his whole administration." The article cites the Student Council, "which could be said to exist largely for the purpose of complaining about things," as reporting that students are unhappy with the University "to the extent that they regard what they get as an 'empty education'--because it lacks the firm foundation of regular and intimate contact with the faculty...
...original Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction days," the ad said, "was an organization of heroes [which] served to protect life and property at a time when there was a complete breakdown of decent government. That condition does not now exist ... In our opinion, we do not need an organization which operates in concealment and ... is destructive to our democratic way of life...
...conditions for Titoism exist in Communist China: a separate army, strong nationalism, economic interests possibly conflicting with Russia. The Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, meeting in Peiping last month for the first time in four years, formally decided that the period of agrarian communism-Mao's policy-was over, that emphasis would now shift to the cities and to speedy industrialization. At least on the face of it, Mao was in complete agreement with the new line. If he was turning into a Tito, he gave no evidence...
International polo, the prewar sport of the breakneck rich, has nearly as many postwar problems as Lake Success. Taxes and war have all but killed the game in Britain, have certainly done it no good in the U.S. Only in Argentina, where more rated polo players (some 3,000) exist than in any other country in the world, is polo still clearly on the upgrade. For four years, Argentine polo's pride & joy has been a dashing outfit with a couple of Argentine Irishmen named Juan and Roberto Cavanagh riding...
Stace, who in September's Atlantic Monthly had announced his discovery that God does not exist, that there is "in the universe outside man no spirituality, no regard for values, no friend in the sky," accurately described the consequences which the ascendance of science and the decline of philosophy had had in the world. More & more people, said Stace, have come to believe that morality is merely relative, with one man's view of right & wrong considered as valid as another's. The consequent lack of agreement on moral standards has created impossible conditions for society. Stace...