Word: mind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news will not be carried "except where some specific event has exerted a marked reaction on the American state of mind," he said yesterday, citing the sinking of the Athenia and the German-Russian Pact as examples of exceptions to the general rule...
...Great is the responsibility of the American universities, great, indeed, is the challenge to American youth" to preserve "the freedom of the human mind," President Conant said. He added, however, that he did not believe that civilization's end is near...
When President Conant spoke in chapel yesterday, he urged in one breath that Americans "recall their mind to the tasks at home," while in his next he warned that this country must guard against the "final disaster" of a "peace" based on bitterness and hate...
...know a little more differ widely about him. Some, like Ralph Roeder (The Man of the Renaissance), consider Machiavelli an Italian patriot and his Prince a kind of Mein Kampf of Italy's struggle for unity. Others, like Author Valeriu Marcu, consider Machiavelli a single-track political mind whose curious obsession with the pure mechanics of power is his first-class ticket to genius...
...with a deplorable system of government." Wounded and permanently disabled while trying to save his captain under machine-gun fire, he discovers that the captain deliberately committed suicide in preference to looting, shooting prisoners, bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs him of a girl, his mind is coldly, bitterly lucid: murder comes easy. Afterwards he slumps to a park bench, a "funny little sentence" running through his head: "At the beginning of a new age, angels stand in the silent darkness-angels with dim eyes and fiery swords." He wakes to find himself covered with snow...