Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Mann's life work is a series of huge, masked, intricate parables. His pamphlets are byproducts, but by no means negligible. This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness. It is, in essence, an exhortation to the German people to rise up and remove the rulers they have permitted themselves, without fur ther poisoning their integrity by awaiting the war's outcome ; and to take active part in creating, with the rest of Europe, the possibilities of freedom and of a lasting peace...
...millions of U. S. citizens who have long clung to the unhistoric legend that U. S. diplomacy has been uniformly unsuccessful and U. S. foreign policy equally nonexistent, a pamphlet published this week will come as a great jolt. For it describes succinctly and with circumstantial detail how Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, in the few brief months leading up to World War II, went about their job of making decisions in U. S. foreign policy. Its name is American White Paper (Simon & Schuster; St). Its authors are Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner...
Students of Government will be very interested in the collection of propaganda and other documents of World Wars one and two to be found on the ground floor and on the stair landing. There are actual copies of the famous "Pamphlet Raids" over Germany...
...Supreme Court decision of 1938, that anti-pamphlet and handbill ordinances are unconstitutional, resulted from a Jehovah's Witnesses appeal...
...University states clearly in a pamphlet describing the House that "a student who does not accept a reservation in a House in any assignment will be considered ineligible for Non-Resident membership in any House in the following academic year...