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Thomas Cheeseborough. Lithe, chiseled, erect, he looks more snobbish than he is, but like a soldier and individualist still disdains cheap politics. "If I can't vote my convictions here," he once said in the Senate, "to hell with this...
...youth today is apathetic, discontented, increasingly prone to look to the Federal Government to do its thinking and planning for it. Three-quarters think the Government should regulate wages and hours, nine out of ten think it should give unemployment relief. Only one in ten is a rugged individualist, one in 25 a radical. The commission offered facts to prove that equality of opportunity is a myth, that there is a "conspiracy of forces that tends to keep certain groups more or less permanently submerged." It found the chances were 3 to i that the son of a laborer will...
...attracted him to Confucius was not the official perfectionist version of China's greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...
This was in many ways the keynote of Dr. Guthrie's career, for he has always been more of an artist than a theologian (for some years he was an itinerant lecturer on literature), and as much of an individualist as an artist. Because the life tenure of an Episcopalian rector can be terminated only for grave cause, and because he was careful never to set down any of his indiscreet utterances in print, he weathered all the storms that blew around his bushy locks...
Typically American in its acceptance of labor standards "just as they happened to be" within its own sphere, the University takes a normal, "rugged-individualist" attitude towards unions, according to Robert J. Watt, secretary for the Massachusetts division...