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...appearing to stab the American delegation in the back. He could not have kept silent without implying tacit assent and wordless blessing to policies he did not conceive and did not believe in. At the present time, Stevenson is a political dead man. While more ambitious Democrats pursue more prudent courses, he may speak his mind on American foreign policy. To have gone to Europe would have compromised this new role as a responsible critic...
...Cambridge today, however, the forces of righteousness are mustering against the undesirables in much the same way that Back Bay rallied against South Boston. These days, however, such squabbles are being relegated to a prudent limbo. The fight involves the less abstract factors of city administration and the school system...
Might it not be prudent to withdraw statehood from Arkansas and give it to Hawaii...
Erudite, self-assured and sometimes petulant, Hailsham, a devout Tory of the "For Queen and Country" tradition, does not suffer fools gladly-and he includes as fools a wider group than do more prudent politicos. Outspoken to the point of bluster, courageous to the point of rashness, he sounded off from the Lords against nationalized industry, Socialism ("imposed equality"), in favor of capital punishment, against lowbrow radio and TV programs, and above all, for a "firm" British line in foreign affairs. After Suez he came into his own as the party's favorite orator, blurting openly what many Conservatives...
...Higher Freedom. "The school is not the Church nor is it the home. It is a sort of city-an area both of protection and of prudent exposure . . . It is a city of freedom in which intelligence may be released freely to grow. And it is a city of order in which the growing intelligence freely gives itself to the guidance of what is lovelier than itself to be led to the higher freedom with which the Word of God makes men free...