Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blunt and to the point...Many Americans (including the politicos) have the idea that wherever America sends aid and money, we are greeted with open arms. I have heard many Greek people express the opinion that the country would be better off if the Americans took their dollars and left Greece to its slow and inefficient way... These people are not Communist sympathizers, by any means...
...misconseption of their statement to stand. President Conant, both as one of the "20" and as the head of an institution which has always meant academic freedom, cannot let this misconception stand. He must make a statement, in Harvard's name as well as his own, contradicting the impression left by the press. We are fundamentally opposed to the President's position that Communists per se are unfit as teachers, but we are confident that his ideals are completely incompatible with those of the "Little Dies" committees. We are confident he would oppose any action resembling a "witch-hunt...
...period between 9 and 10:15 Thursday night, thieves slipped into Dunster Small Common Room and left with a large oriental rug, on loan from Fogg Muscum, that had completely covered the floor...
Most of the story deals with this lonely hunt, and also with teh tight complex tensions which are released in the Bridges family by the death of the first son. The third and youngest son is left at the ranch to cope with the messy psychological situation created by his brother's death, among his sister, his parents, and his fiancee. By exercising fantastic self-control, he keeps the tensions in hand msot of the time, but just barely...
...wonders why David E. Lilienthal persists in serving his government. From the time he left a private legal practice to head of the TVA right down through his service as head of the AEC he has been subjected to repeated attacks on his personal integrity and ability. In all this time neither personal enemies nor the private power interests have been able to discredit him or his work. Two years ago, in the noisy struggle over his appointment as AEC chairman, his intellectual values were challenged by Senator McKellar and his fellows--and Lilienthal's reply was a classic statement...