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Genevieve's success as a decorator is evident in the atmosphere of the Club. With a twist of odd fabric for a curtain, a dangling red shaded lamp, and a small record player equipped with Charles Trenet records, she achieves a complete and quiet atmosphere for the Champagne lounge on the second flood. A "Cocteau machine," which relays the orders for Rose or Alsatain wines from downstairs, completes the picture. In the restaurant on the ground floor, a strategically placed modern lamp or a bull fight poster are some of the fitting additions to the twenty-five checkered cloth covered...
...acted believing that the principle that one is innocent until proven guilty permeates both the legal and social fabric of our society. Nor did we lose sight of the current hysteria which has its effects upon legal endictments and prosecutions...
...people are more qualified is not relevant. The fact is that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles tapped Bohlen for the job because they thought he was the best-equipped candidate they could find. Joe McCarthy has performed herculean service in the campaign to root subversives from the fabric of American Government. But he has not been alone in this challenging task. People like Bob Taft of Ohio and Bill Knowland of California and Homer Ferguson of Michigan trained their sights on the Communist menace long before...
...disappointing romance with Communism. Said Hicks: "... I would go along with Senator Taft in feeling that I would not want to make an absolute rule . . . There are situations in which it would be better to let a Communist keep his [teaching] job than to disrupt the whole fabric of academic freedom." But if a Communist brought his politics into the classroom, that was something else again. The trouble with all these investigations, Hicks continued, is that the emphasis always falls on "how much" the Communists have infiltrated American colleges. It might be better, said he, to emphasize "how little...
...Lenin was surely right when the end he sought for was to build his heaven upon earth and to write the precepts of its faith into the inner fabric of a universal humanity. He was surely right, too, when he recognized that the prelude to peace is a war ... It is, indeed, true in a sense to argue that the [Soviet] Russian principle cuts deeper than the Christian since it seeks salvation for the masses by fulfillment in this life, and, thereby, orders anew the actual world we know...