Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chen pointed out that the key problem in the Chinese mind today is how to save the country. "The Chinese desire above all a government that can guard their recently hard-won freedom... a government that will provide adequate national defense, for they know very well that national weakness has always been a standing invitation to agression...
...live political issues of the 20's and 30's are not the live issues of the 40's. In order to get the same top-quality treatment of these burning contemporary questions, younger men must be encouraged, and encouraged with the importance of their contribution kept fully in mind. The creation of even half-dozen assistant professorships would not be too high a payment to make, it would attract to Harvard, or keep at Harvard the best of our generation of political scholars. For a generation lost in Government is the same as centuries in many other fields...
...with Russia in the next 15 years, "not only for rule of the world but for the mind of humanity," was predicted as the inevitable result of persisting Western naivete by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, last night...
...Scott] and [KQW] for your disbelief." Said another: "This is unconstitutional and should be discontinued." Members of the Southern Baptist Church of Modesto, Calif, voted a protest. Yet 24% of the letter writers, while mostly disagreeing with Scott's irreligion, commended the station for letting him speak his mind. A Congregational minister expressed their views: "It is good for any institution to be under healthful criticism, including the church. It is good for any theory to defend itself from time to time...
...defenses. Tolstoy wrote the first of his Sevastopol Sketches in a dugout under bombardment. At first he liked the whole thing: "The constant charm of danger, observing the soldiers . . . are so agreeable that I do not wish to leave here. . . ." But before the siege was over he changed his mind. Though he hated physical violence, he beat his soldiers in fits of irritation, and they said they had never known his like for cursing...