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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twentieth Century man, though often lonely, does not live alone. His existence is tied to an ever-increasing number of organizations which, like feudal castles, dot the 20th Century's landscape. They are created by the simple fact that man can no longer alone cope with what Churchill calls the 20th Century's tides and tornadoes. What happens to man in this situation was the problem discussed by the panel on "The Role of the Individual in a World of Institutions...
...police officer allows himself the luxury of noticing more important things, which may deepen his knowledge of the country. For instance," and Leroux's arm swung this way & that, pointing, "the little men who are not the little husbands coming quickly from the little houses, and that blonde number from the bar hurrying from behind the hedge. But quick! We have practically not a moment to lose...
...Karens number only 1,500,000 of Burma's 17 million, but their hard-hitting troops terrify the Burmans. Trained by the British as anti-Japanese guerrilla units, the Karens are the best-equipped, best-officered group in the battle royal which has been raging for control of Burma (see map). The Karens' rivals include: 1) the government, which holds a few beleaguered cities and some areas in the far north and south; 2) the Red Flag (Trotskyite) Communists; 3) the White Flag (Stalinist) Communists; and 4) the White Band (People's Volunteer Organization), followers of assassinated...
...London. The scene of Lilith's present depredations is a place called Battle Hill, a rise of ground with a "strategic situation in regard to London." Through history, Battle Hill has witnessed massacres without number-"mornings and evenings of hardly human sport." Now, "from other periods of its time other creatures could crawl out of death, and invisibly contemplate [the living], awaiting the hour when they should either retire to their own mists or more fully invade the place of the living...
...Griffin numbered "about two dozen Harvard teachers or almost 5 percent of the permanent faculty" as being frequent supporters of Communist front movements. "Harvard regularly leads other universities in the number of professors endorsing petitions in sympathy with Communist party policy...