Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short," summarized President Conant at the end of his sermon, "an effective citizen of this nation must today be a critical yet vigorous proponent of democracy. Indeed, one might say that to the degree that he is a living embodiment of the ideals of our free society, he is through his daily life making a significant contribution to the momentous history of our times. To the extent that he believes in democracy, he can certainly make it better, and in so doing assist in bringing peace and stability to an uncertain world...
...Harvard Club Scholarships are granted by individual Clubs throughout the nation. Many of these grants have not yet been announced and therefore do not appear below...
...Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius (Olga Katzin Miller) has written a dedication in verse ("Hedunit") to the hawk-nosed man in the deerstalker cap who "started a mania for singular cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn...
...Power" worthy of wide circulation is that most Americans are unaware of the extent of the Church's success in this effort at control. (One example of such success is that the Church was able to force many boards of education,--including New York City's--to ban "The Nation" from public school libraries because it printed a series of articles by Blanshard, the foreruners of "American Democracy and Catholic Power," which attacked the Church's role in American life...
This strategy involves questions which the ordinary citizen considers far removed from the religious level, matters such as proper procedure for doctors, what you may see in the movies or read in the newspapers, or the nation's foreign policy...