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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, in Los Angeles, Marshall stated a truth of which many Americans had become more or less keenly aware. Said Marshall: "No nation in modern history has ever occupied a position of responsibility comparable to that of this country today nor has any country had such vast responsibility thrust upon it in so short a time." How well would the U.S. carry out its responsibility...
Small but modern rooms, a reputation for having more students with high marks than are to be found elsewhere, and the same central kitchen food that feeds all Houses but Adams and Dunster might be called the chief characteristics of Lowell...
Quoting Einstein, Eisenhower, and official Army reports to prove that the trainees would not be ready to join the army as effective fighting men until months after a modern war would be over, Willner called for a stronger air force and greatly expanded research in scientific warfare...
...Peaceable Kingdom," which followed the very effective "Alleluia," presents interesting contrasts between the men's and women's voices. It has none of the precise word-coloring technique of the Handel work but creates an impressionistic mood ranging from a style resembling Renaissance Church music to modern syncopation. Its close, a complicated fugue which is resolved into a unison crescendo, was somewhat disappointing. The earlier black and white differentiation between the righteous and the wicked was lost in the final phrase, "the mountain of the Lord...
...must the displaced European Jews be forced to remain on the continent that has served as their slaughter-house, continually threatened by latent anti-Semtism? Why, after they have built a comparatively modern nation out of a wasteland in one of the outstanding social experiments of our times, must the Palestinian Jews be thwarted, not by their own inadequacies, not by the forces of nature, but by the duplicity of friends...