Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the real reason for his expulsion remained a mystery, other newsmen guessed that Magidoff might have been a stalking-horse in the Soviet campaign to clean up "impurity" in the arts. He had many friends among Russian writers and artists. Thus, branding him a spy would, later, make it...
Explaining the purpose of the meeting, Robert N. Bollah '48, one of its organizers, last night cited the Un-American Committee's Hollywood investigations and the "loyalty purge" as evidence for HYD's contention that civil rights are "gravely endangered."
¶ A purge has been carried out in the Farmers' Union.
"Anxiety," says Reinhold Niebuhr, "is the internal precondition of sin"-the inevitable spiritual state of man, in the paradox of his freedom and his finiteness. Anxiety is not sin because there is always the ideal possibility that faith might purge anxiety of the tendency toward sin. The ideal possibility is...
He achieves, but he knows no peace, because higher possibilities are revealed in each achievement. In all his anxious acts man faces the temptation of illimitable possibility. "There is therefore no limit of achievement in any sphere of activity in which human history can rest with equanimity." History cannot pause...