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...oldest baubles, the diamond, may help protect him against his newest peril. This week the U.S. Bureau of Standards announced that diamonds, size for size, are 1,000 times more sensitive to dangerous radiation than the famous Geiger counter...
Deeply disturbed, Cliatt gets him out and gradually becomes the local protagonist for civil liberties. Cliatt's attempts to rouse the people to their peril ends up in a drubbing at a revivalist meeting from which only Cliatt's conscience emerges clean and whole. A-Revolutionary War episode at Fredericksville is neatly interlaced to provide the historical perspective of the little man struggling almost alone for the common good...
...Another peril of democracy as a religion is that, without a more inclusive religious faith, we identify our particular brand of democracy with the ultimate values of life. This is a sin to which Americans are particularly prone. . . . There are no historic institutions, whether political, economic or religious, which can survive a too uncritical devotion. . . . But even if our democracy were more perfect than it is ... devotion to democracy would still be false as a religion. It tempts us ... to give a false and idolatrous religious note to the conflict between democracy and communism, for instance...
...Europe is in peril of becoming totally Communist-dominated. China, largely because of America's betrayal, is threatened thus. In fact, in every part of the world the things that matter most are in jeopardy because of Marxian and other collectivisms. . . . It will take a tidal wave to reverse these anti-God trends and save our nation and our world after the pattern God willed and manifested through His Son. In that process this church and each of us can have a real part...
Democract is in peril, declared Algerson D. Black '23 of the American Ethical Union last night at Phillips Brooks House, but he was prepared with an answer as well as a warning. The New York City civic leader came to Boston by plane yesterday afternoon to recruit students for his New York City summer "Encampment for Citizenship" at Fieldston High School...