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...minutes have ticked away, but their spirit will linger--to be cherished, to be fought for, to be preserved. At Boston Common, Legionnaires will march for Peace. At the Friends' Center, pacifists will debate for Peace. The Massachusetts Youth Committee will distribute exhortative pamphlets. The Anti-War Committee will preach their platform for Peace. The Student Union will counter with theirs. Every voice in the country will be raised towards...
Editors Craven and Boswell, both grassrooters for the current U. S. school, preach an esthetic doctrine of flag-waving. Writes Critic Craven, himself a Kansan: "These vigorous Americans . . . have achieved a body of painting . . . which has announced the beginning of a distinctly American style." Editor Boswell makes the eagle scream louder, says contemporary U. S. painting is "bred of politico-economic nationalism and the concurrent resentment against the high-pressure dumping of inferior foreign art on the home market." His small-town merchant advice: "Patronize your local art exhibitions...
...forces of kindness and regard for the rights of others that build up our ways of life along lines of personal freedom, with the right to a trial by jury when we are accused of crime, the right to print what we want to say in our papers and preach what we want to preach in our pulpits and over our radios, and to listen to the same and form our opinions. These forces of kindness and personal freedom are opposed by thoughts of power over individuals under such slogans as that the individual and all he has belongs...
...much as they scrapped what the democracies called economics, the totalitarian countries scrapped what democracies called common sense. To ride the whirlwind of change, solemnly to preach howling absurdities, cheerfully to embrace glaring contradiction-all this served to conceal the war's aims, to hide its agony, to blur its issues. Guns and submarines and planes threatened the national existence of Britain and France. But speeches and explanations were directed like bombs against their reason...
...Special service new students in the University Memorial Chapel. The Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry will preach...