Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conant set forth as his thesis, "What can I, as a single individual, do to assist in times like these?" He contended that although the new graduate must be aware of global problems, with great sympathy for the issues which confront peoples of other countries, his first duty is "to make of the United States an improved United States...
...accomplish this, Conant said, "first of all the citizen must become a real enthusiast about our great democratic experiment; he must be eager to forward those ideals which are the premises of the experiment itself. Secondly, he must work at the task of making his belief manifest almost daily in the course of his regular life...
...Above all," Conant cautioned the prospective graduates, "there must be a determination to re-examine continuously the premises of one's own stand on many issues:--the courage to raise such questions with oneself as: Am I doing this or advocating that because I am really convinced that it will forward American democracy, or am I merely wrapping some fine phrases around a project which is closely connected with my own pet ideas or personal fortune...
...carried on by specialists in the remote borderlands of the superstates or around the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. Nonetheless, London life is inexpressibly vile-a combination of super-Crippsian austerity and Dachau terrorism. To fall in love is a crime; all passion must be spent on nationalistic fervor and savage hatred of "Emmanuel Goldstein," the Trotzky-like leader of the anti-party underground. All adoration must be devoted to "Big Brother," the Stalinesque dictator whom no one has ever seen, but whose "black-haired, black-mustachio'd" visage, pregnant with "power and mysterious...
...Hitler and Stalin. No longer do party leaders pretend that they seized power for idealistic reasons and in the hope of creating a better world. Power is now frankly an end in itself. "God is power," explains the smiling, priestly torturer. Thus, to be Godlike, the man of 1984 must have such power over himself as to be capable of nothing but "utter submission" to the invisible Big Brother. By practising the Newspeak art of doublethink, he must learn to believe in the very core of his being that even "the stars can be near or distant, according...