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...right up to the moment of his execution-when he is saved by a royal pardon. Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple of bitter speeches of social protest, written in a heavy Teutonic style that even Blitzstein's tart translation could not leaven...
...present membership in the Communist Party. Such advice if followed would surely vitiate the principle of permanent tenure. it could only increase the already alarming timidity of scholars to make known the fruits of their study, to teach and arrive at the truth as they find it, and to leaven the often smug hump of American complacency. It is insidious enough to deprive pedagogues unjustly of the nation's confidence; to annihilate them by destroying tenure, the foundation of academic freedom, is even worse...
Although having no previous legal experience, he had no choice but to handle the case himself; he began immediately to prepare his brief in an old Leaven-worth ledger book that he had found in a trash can. While still in the guard-house. Billings corresponded with his old chief, William C. Bullitt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...cultural independence but questioned whether Canada was ready to uphold it. Said the Montreal Herald: "A sparsely populated country adjoining a heavily populated country and sharing with it the same speech and largely the same cultural origins must expect to be dominated for a time." There was also a leaven of doubt whether money would buy the culture that Canada now lacks. "A nation cannot buy culture," warned the Calgary Herald. "It is something which grows out of the heart, not out of the pocketbook...
...potent enough leaven calls for an "unpleasant Christianity." The oldtime Puritans might not have been very jolly people to have around, Berggrav points out, but they did great things for political liberty...