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...Seattle to San Diego, the turnstiles were spinning. With 34% more population to draw on than before the war, attendance in the bustling Pacific Coast League was running well ahead of last year (1946's record total: 3,718,716). But was this proof that the P.C.L. had outgrown its minor-league uniforms? All sport attendance figures were in the clouds-and there was no denying that it took a pretty big customer to fill a major-league suit...
...Kingdom of God is Within You. The Russian Christian's doctrine of nonviolent resistance to unjust rule gripped the Hindu lawyer's mind. "Young birds," wrote Tolstoy, ". . . know very well when there is no longer room for them in the eggs. ... A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to re-enter its shell...
...exception was socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru. Indian independence was certain to be followed by a struggle for economic power. For all these bewildering problems Gandhi had an answer: hurt no living thing; live simply, peacefully, purely. But fewer & fewer listened to that part of his advice. Just as Gandhi had outgrown the shell of the British Raj, so Indian nationalism, Hindu and Moslem, showed signs of outgrowing Gandhi's teachings...
...plan, was one of relative stabilization. But by the evidence of the films, stabilization meant an avoidance of intellectual and spiritual issues. Movies about adolescence were significantly popular (Children of No Importance); the Germans looked back nostalgically, Dr. Kracauer says, to an era when the immaturity they had never outgrown was charming and legitimate...
...main the hypothetical nature of the College "experiment" has been outgrown, and General Education is now regarded with few exceptions as a good thing. Admittedly, details must be worked out, and it will be several years before an established curriculum will finally be adopted. However, the college has recognized the main educational problem of the times and has undertaken a solution which it is prepared to go along with as far as it can. An important point, which the Faculty Report recognized, lies in the simple fact that higher education alone cannot settle the present educational crisis, for General Education...