Word: freedoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale emphasizes freedom and initiative, Sturges said. "We would prefer students to do individual honors work in their second year. All seniors must do at least two units of it." Unlike Harvard and most law schools, he added, Yale allows its students to elect their own courses of study, except in the first term...
Helping the eastern European countries achieve at lest a measure of freedom from Russia will weaken the Russian influence on communist groups outside the Soviet sphere. De-Russianizing Western European communists, in particular, will greatly reduce their threat to our hegemony of Western Europe...
...does not consider government aid to be a threat to academic freedom. "Washington may set minimum standards in such matters as equality of opportunity, but British experience suggests that aid without control of college educational policies is possible...
...trade with the enemy." They turn in their hard West marks at six to one for soft Soviet marks, then buy in East Berlin. A gaunt worker, castigating the Reds, growled about "die Schweine" (the pigs), but he had just got a haircut in the Soviet sector. "Berliners value freedom," a German paper editorialized, "but they can do little with it. They have only the hungry freedom of the unemployed...
...mind and heart in Berlin's raw, garish ruins were fixed on sheer survival. During the next four years the Germans pushed through poverty to positive goals, to a fierce fight for freedom. Today, in a humdrum autumn of pointless peace, hope has departed and "normalcy" takes the shape of nothingness...