Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American businessman, wrote Mr. Lippmann, holds his - and the world's -fate in his hands because, of all the world's great powers, the U.S. alone has "no governing class which has a social position and political power superior to that of the business community." For that reason preoccupation with the current economies of other nations will be far less instructive to him than the study of a significant thought from the past : the psychoanalysis of the divergent fortunes of British and French aristocracies made some 80 years ago by "the incomparable de Tocqueville...
...cling "to their privileges and immunities to console themselves for having lost to the king the power to govern." U.S. business can perish or survive according to how it chooses between the same essential alternatives today. But the great danger is that U.S. businessmen will unwittingly suffer the fate of the nobility of France - unless they stop "brooding upon their grievances and their troubles and their lost prerogatives and their diminishing immunities" and concentrate upon the commanding position they really hold in world affairs...
...nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
...term. The army may move in, but not tomorrow or by the first of the year. If the plans have taken long, the complete execution will take longer, and it becomes ever clearer that nothing that can happen will, in the immediate future, radically after the undergraduate fate...
...news" floating through the dining halls last night was branded as unfounded rumor. No word has been received from any informed source revealing the fate of the universities or the reserve programs. Word from Washington hinted at indefinite delay, but when the news would break could not be ascertained...