Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is little the Republican Party can do at present, Webb believes. "The Democrats [have] an initiative based on [this] new principle which for the time being the Republican Party cannot possibly take from it and remain the Republican Party ... It can only complain, criticize, claim it can do the job better and more efficiently. Under present conditions it seems doubtful whether it can find anything to offer that its members would accept or the American voters would take at face value. The Republican Party worked out to the last grain its vein of success and for the present...
Webb could only counsel watchful waiting. Said he: "This the Republicans need to bear in mind. They are going to have thin pickings until the present principle of developing a social state has failed...
...Higher Loyalty. To Layman Smith, the trend is clear, present, and dangerous: in their anxiety to adjust the child to his environment, modern educators have actually forgotten the child for the environment. As the American Association of School Administrators put it in its own brand of pedagoguese, education should aim not at educating "the individual in his own right to become a valuable member of society," but at preparing him "for the realization of his best self in the higher loyalty of serving the basic ideals and aims of our society...
...also gave to the world several other U.S. secrets:1) that U.S. scientists, in trying to make a superbomb, have already made one six times as powerful as the Nagasaki "Model T"; 2) that the U.S. goal is a bomb 1,000 times as powerful; 3) that the present effort is to "find some way of detonating a bomb before the fellow that wants to drop it can detonate...
...symphonic poem, On the Other Side of the Araks, was written to celebrate the struggle of the people of southern Azerbaijan "with the Anglo-American imperialists in Iran." A Sixth Symphony, by one Janis Ivanov, had been inspired by the "difficult past and bright present" of the Latvian people (no longer harassed by political independence since their 1940 incorporation in the Soviet Union...