Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...degree as Justice Douglas pointed out in the "released-time" decision. Now while I am with you all the way in the cases of "Oliver-Twist," "Devil in the Flesh," and "The Miracle," I think that the film you mourn goes far south of that borderline which divides mere bad taste from bigotry and race hatred. Each case should be decided on its particular merits. "Birth of a Nation" has few. At least too few to justify its public showing in Boston...
First of all the picture's keynote is not mere eloquent praise of a colorful fraternity in white sheets, but rather a virulent form of White Racism, of which the Klan is a symbol. The Negro is pictured throughout as a thief and a low-life, whose only intent as a Freedman is rapine of his former masters and the physical possession of Caucasion virgins. If such a theme could cause riots fifty years after Reconstruction, there is no reason why it cannot, and does not, cause violent emotions today. At least the Solid South does not look upon Griffith...
...third act clears up the reason for the diverse points of view. For though together they represent the intellectual pinnacle of 20th century culture, each view is cowardly, frustrated, or morally bankrupt, simply because each is a mere intellectualization. The inhabitants of Heartbreak House do not have the courage to go out and fight for what they believe in. They are lovely people waiting to be annihilated, and nihilism was apparently the best Shaw could wish them...
...mere size of this anticipated enrollment in a military organization on a college campus is shocking enough, for there is no proper place in a university such as Harvard for a military organization of any description, regardless of its size, and regardless of the national and international situation. What is appalling, however, is that University authorities, such as President Conant himself, can, apparently calmly, state that forty percent of the freshman class is enrolled in the ROTC, and that we must expect a majority of freshmen to be enrolled in these units as part of their undergraduate work. And that...
...educators since ancient times-is to find a method by which the proper moral habits may be formed." One method he has tried is an experimental great books program for 50 selected students. As Father Cavanaugh sees it, the purpose of the course is to provide more than a mere speaking acquaintance with the great ideas. "We accept as valid the Christian tradition," says he, "and in the great books we show that tradition at work in the history of Western thought...