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...take his comic book or his radio away from him now because he's used to them and he might cry, but you can work for, fight for a decent, liberal educational system, for better pay for teachers so that better teachers will come to nourish the minds of the next generation. You can stop patronizing the stupidest 90% of Hollywood's products until they stop making them and are forced to use talent, intelligence and new ideas. You can demand that your radio station devote more time to adult entertainment. You can club together...
...Liberal Tradition, by William Aylott Orton (Yale University Press; $3.50), is a 317-page attempt to redefine liberalism by groping for i) its spiritual roots; 2) its historical roots; 3) the adventitious roots that nourish its current distortions and perversions. Author Orton is an Anglo-Catholic liberal. Since the religious ground on which he stands is one of the few relatively solid footholds in a shifting universe, it makes a cozy vantage point from which to scrutinize that inherently shifting political and moral position-liberalism...
...cover. They got there because they were champions, or near champions, and because they were just about to compete in some big event. Some won, as they were expected to, and there was very little hullabaloo about it. But those who lost made big news - and helped nourish the legend of the TIME "jinx." Some examples...
...pattern, they will firmly secure the Pomeranian and Silesian flanks before they move on Berlin. If Berlin is lost before the western Allies move, the Nazis will still hold the Ruhr. When that is gone, they will still have the industries of central and southern Germany, Austria, Bohemia to nourish a diminished, compact and desperate Wehrmacht for a while longer...
...There are always plenty of time servers and men with good intellects, but with little imagination and less ambition, and these men alone might well fill our graduate schools of arts and sciences unless we are on guard. But from such a crop few professors will develop who can nourish and inspire the students one and two decades hence. From such a group few original investigators or scholars will arise to enrich the stream of civilization by their discoveries and their thoughts...