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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond Eisler there are a host of other men-fellow travelers, confused liberals, "totalitarian liberals" (see INTERNATIONAL), left-wing New Dealers-who owe muddled allegiance to the idea that government should be omnipotently responsible for the lives of its citizens even to the point of benevolent despotism. They fail to understand that despotism, which has a way of beginning with benevolence, usually ends by being merely despotic. Few of them even understood the incompatibility of their views with democracy, or that it is just such views which makes them so sympathetic to Soviet Russia. But the mass of Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Democracy & Security | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Undergraduates of 1947 obviously fail to see the possibilities inherent in a more active Student Council. The vaunted local indifference has frozen out all chances of making the effort at revision a step in itself toward wider interest in Council affairs. Thus the Council for this year and for 1947-48 will make their marks without the greater undergraduate interest which the campaign for change hoped to arouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Spirit Is Willing | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...momentum while other academic activities receive fuller blessings and endowments. Far better than short-run expediencies as thrown up in the two-year college plan, the educators should settle on a strategic withdrawal from conflict with an economy-minded Congress, especially since the educators are armed with blueprints that fail to win the confidence of their own camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Way to Learning | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

...innovation of alternating technicolor and monochrome to depict earth and heaven. The latter is a highly fanciful creation, and the Hollywood-Bowlish representation of the High Court of Judgment stretches the imagination almost beyond the bounds of good taste. But no one, whether atheist or fatalist, can fail to enjoy the high humor of the heavenly consternation when a "clerical error" results in the unscheduled prolongment of the doomed flier's life-on-earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/7/1947 | See Source »

...showed a lack of interest in attending student produced plays. "The Workshop is highly encouraged by the response accorded its poll of students," Weisgal reported. One man, however, saw the Workshop's dooms-day approaching and announced, "You are combatting a mighty current in an unrealistic fashion, and will fail accordingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Calls for Escapist Dramas In Workshop Poll | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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