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Although Franklin D. Roosevelt made many mistakes, what he salvaged was more valuable than what he lost, Oscar Handlin, professor of History, maintained in an article in yesterday's Boston Globe...
...Despite immense difficulties, the nation, under his leadership, avoided the temptations of dictatorship and restrained essential changes within a democratic order," Handlin said...
...Oscar Handlin, professor of History, rebutted in this month's Atlantic Monthly an article by Herbert R. Sass describing the South's position on racial segregation...
...Handlin's article centered around the fact that the "growth of equality between races does not increase the rate of intermarriage." He added, "Marriages are usually formed among individuals of common cultural, social and religious backgrounds-even where race does not intrude," commented Handlin...
With his set of moral values destroyed, man then turned to an ad hoc moral standard which is in vogue today. Contemporary man must therefore regain the older type of comprehensive morals without the other aspects of traditional religion which are no longer workable in American society, concluded Handlin...