Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the current Communist line, and that was the not-very-secret weapon of Italian Communism. It was not only Sicilian peasants who fell for it. Chirped a Milanese debutante last week: "Communism doesn't prevent you from listening to music, sipping tea or eating pastry...
...such occasional idiocies do not prevent the Communist message from reaching the minds of thousands like a messianic revelation. In the village of Arsoli, a white-haired, sturdy old peasant woman described how the message came to her: "I think perhaps one is born with a Communist spirit, just like some people are born poets. I remember the first Abyssinian war with our terrible defeat, and watching the first swallows come from Africa that year. I remember, too, worrying when I was young about people like the carpenters, who built fine furniture but slept on trestles. Communism will...
...anything will prevent war with Russia, it is the Truman Doctrine. But if war does come, it will be the work of you radicals Who never get at the root of anything. R. Bruce Friedman...
Objections are immediately raised at the thought of a university meddling in the affairs of secondary schools--and such objections are not ill-founded. Obviously the role of the Harvard Committee is not that of revamping faulty preparatory schools. Remoteness from the problems involved prevent any active correction on the secondary level by a University committee. Nonetheless, if the recommendations for high and prep schools are not to die aborning, the sincere proponents of General Education for the entire "free society" will have to saddle up their horses and get busy. A committee for open and active study in cooperation...
...Faculty action of April 15 which created such a furor was simply a move to make permanent the war-born system and prevent restriction of joint instruction when the University returns to "normal" in June, 1948. Harvard and Radcliffe, despite the partial fusion of faculty and courses and the high percentage of Radcliffe students that eventually marry Harvard men, have been and will continue to be two separate institutions. Continuation of the present policy, which permits 'Cliffedwellers to take Harvard courses above Freshman level, will keep to a minimum the number of professors who hold forth in New Lecture Hall...