Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. Almost as if it were some kind of Security Council document, the late U.N. Secretary General described this strange and moving journal as "a white paper concerning my negotiations with God." Hardly that formal, the book portrays in aphorisms, essays, and even haikus Hammarskjold's mystical efforts to resolve agonizing religious doubts...
...consistently the most intransigent of the intransigent, was obviously awed by the fact that there is a rule of law. The day before the Biloxi hearing started, 650 of the town's leading doctors, lawyers, ministers and businessmen placed a full-page ad in the Mc-Comb Enterprise-Journal declaring that "the time has come for responsible people to speak out for what is right and against what is wrong." Said the ad's signers, who described themselves as "Citizens for Progress": "There is only one responsible stance we can take and that is for equal treatment under...
Peter Ullrich '59, assistant director of the Office for Graduate and Career Plans, yesterday disputed a Wall Street Journal article which claimed that the percentage of Harvard seniors planning business careers has dropped sharply in the past five years...
Ambition brought him to New York, where the late George Jean Nathan, then theater critic for the Journal-American, helped him get a job on the paper in 1949. At the time, O'Brian had been the Associated Press's drama critic and sometime radio critic for six years. After a brief stint as a Journal-American rewrite man, O'Brian was assigned to do a radio-TV column. This was in the days when everybody who had a TV set was watching four to five hours a night and wanted to talk about it the next...
Perhaps, as Humphrey seems to suggest, the journal's leftism makes for interesting reading but risky following. While there is some truth in this, I suspect the real answer is much simpler: the New Republic's advice is rarely taken because it is rarely given. The magazine doesn't propagandize ideas; it considers them. It thinks. It is not, as has been postulated, the conscience of America's liberalism, but rather liberalism's intellect...