Word: personation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the vague outlines are immensely exciting. This nation has shrugged off the isolationism which followed World War I, but it remains largely ignorant about the new manner of man living across the Atlantic. The displaced person, booted about Europe for the past 15 years, can tell Americans much of the new loves and new hates of the 1948 continental. Peace depends in part on enlightened leadership in Europe, and United States universities can help displaced persons to support such leadership. But peace also depends on an America which has evolved beyond the dark ages of its own aloofness. Here...
...changed its mind. California's ban on mixed marriages was declared unconstitutional by a 4-to-3 decision of the state's Supreme Court. Marriage, said the majority opinion, is a fundamental right of free men; and the right to marry includes the right to marry the person of one's choice...
Just before adjournment last week, Congress passed a new law defining libel as "anything which offends the dignity of any public official, whether the article refers directly to the person, or by allusion to him or the governmental organization of which he forms a part." Penalties run up to three years in jail. A neat clause prohibits the introduction of evidence to prove the offender's statements. Henceforth, Perón and La Señora could expect a good press...
...person unconvinced of the heinousness of birth control may constitutionally vote for it, and campaign for it; the person and the organization who hate indifference to God's law should and shall fight it. Lucian C. Pariato '50 Aloya A. Michel '50 Richard A. Diroll...
Mexico has two top conductors. They do not like each other much. Conductor Carlos Chávez of the National Symphony Orchestra has referred (in print) to José Yves Limantour as a "calumniator, howler, fool, evil person . . . and despicable." Limantour of the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra is equally outspoken about...