Word: globally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. was getting a chance to sample the Fairbanks charm via TV. "He brings to a bottle of beer a global approach." said one New York critic after watching Fairbanks do a filmed commercial. Meanwhile, the beer was keeping Doug busy and bringing a tidy flood of dollars to Britain and to No. 28, The Boltons. "Socially and diplomatically," said Douglas Fairbanks Jr., "I find myself walking on a long tightrope. I have nearly slipped off it several times, but I managed to hang on by a little finger...
...major problems now facing this ancient community of scholars. These problems were undreamed of in 1933. They will be history two decades hence. What their solution may be is not for me to say. But I conclude this report with the strong conviction that short of a global war, the universities of this nation will be even more significant in 1973 than they are today. As vital centers of sound learning, as strongpoints defending individualized liberty, as communities of creative thinkers, on industrialized democracy can do without them: each year will demonstrate their indispensability to this society of free...
...balance of this century; though I hasten to add that I am not one of those pessimists who see either World War III or the defeat of the free nations as the only alternative outcomes of this conflict. I believe we can and will avoid an atomic global holocaust and given time, courage and patience, that the tradition of dissent and freedom will prove to be a better guide for a heavily industrialized society than totalitarian communism." ... The next ten years, if they bring neither World War II nor peace will be in a sense a continuation of that long...
Twenty years is a long time to be president of a university in a period of history that covers a great depression, a world war and the present global struggle with communism. I might count it as the equivalent of forty. At all events under our revised statutes, I should have had only five years more before a discussion of my successor would have dominated the Harvard scene. As it is, I am, on short notice, anticipating my retirement, not resigning. The distinction is important to me if not to you. For I shall continue after September first as President...
...struggle to free herself of the Nazis in World War II. But he counseled patience as well as perseverance. "The deliverance of France," he said, "took place not only through the individual efforts of loyal Frenchmen . . . but because a free France had become an integral part of global strategy . . . We know that half a million [Nationalist] soldiers are not enough to retake the mainland. Our future is linked with that of the free world, which must one of these days answer the question whether it is going to leave 450 million people on the Chinese mainland to be drilled, equipped...