Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schlesinger said the rally was backed by many "left wingers like myself who cannot accept a pro-Soviet policy. Those who do not recognize the Soviet threat to intellectual freedom and who support the conference are false to human decency...
Science, Dr. Compton said, "is the only solution which can contribute importantly to the satisfaction of these human needs...
Congratulations on printing such a straight-forward treatment of the Cirrotta mishap. Of course, a few of the wishy-washy kind may take exception to your frank recognition of the worthlessness of human life, but I trust that you will face their mewling as coolly as the "naturally regrettable" incident itself...
Culture's next essential, concludes Eliot, is for "the great majority of human beings [to] go on living in the place in which they were born." Regional habits, dialects, loyalties, eccentricities and faiths all contribute to a national culture by ensuring vital "friction between its parts." In the same way, different national cultures help towards the unity of international culture; men of good will who dream of nothing but ideological and international unanimity are, Eliot warns, culture's worst enemies. In the Eliotian western world, Catholic must continue to debate with Protestant, theist with atheist, class with class...
...culture is too personal and too narrow. He may insist that few aristocrats contribute as much to culture as they drain from it-and that the same may be said of poverty, illiteracy, class friction and bigotry. He may even insist, as most people do, that the flexible human race can always be relied on to re-create a new culture even while it is scrapping an old one. But he will get no encouragement from the author of The Waste Land, who has rescued his vision of culture simply to give it an impressive funeral...