Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Foster Dulles was a missionary for peace in the cause of freedom, in the deepest meaning of the American experiment. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1888 and grew up beside the bluffs of grey Lake Ontario at the family home in Watertown, N.Y. There his father, the...
"Wait 'till next year" is an adage as old as organized sport, but in the case of the varsity lacrosse team it has definite meaning. For the Crimson next season will have six members returning from this spring's starting ten, along with a freshman team which compiled an 8...
Congress, says Burnham, is "the one major curb on the soaring executive and the unleashed bureaucracy." Rights and liberties written into law "have no practical meaning" unless there is an independent institutional power to uphold the law against the claims and encroachments of the executive power. Lacking any popular mandate...
In Constantine, 200 miles to the east, still seething over the killing by F.L.N. terrorists of three French youths and the kidnaping of a young girl (TIME, May 18), French settlers boycotted the local celebration almost to a man, gave vent to their anger at De Gaulle by jeering a...
In the view of Veritas, glib liberalism gives aid and comfort to something more extreme: "socialism prepares the ground for communism." Though they draw a reluctant distinction between well-meaning, patriotic liberals and communist subversives, Veritas members insist that the first inexorably fosters the second. Veritas never accuses Schlesinger of...