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Wouldn't it be grand and glorious if some of pur RFC employees thought as much of their personal principles as they do of their personal principals...
There is no reason for sacrificing any more troops in Korea. If it is being done to save someone's face, we in Korea have news for them: we are interested in saving something, too-and it's not pur face. The great showdown is approaching . . . Are we going to sleep right up to the minute the opening gun is fired...
...Others: "Professor" Friedrich Bhaer, who married one of Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women; James Whitcomb Riley's "Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., T-Y-TY." The TYTY was a bit of Riley humor. Since schoolchildren used to spell by syllable (e.g., PURITY, p-u-r-PUR; iI; t-y-TY), the alphabet after the "perfesser's" name brought forth from Riley the old classroom response...
...charge you that if the defendants did no more than pur sue peaceful studies and discussions or teaching and advocacy in the realm of ideas you must acquit them . . . Do not be led astray by talk about thought control, or putting books on trial. No such issues are before you here. "But no one could suppose nor is it the law that any person has an absolute and unbridled right to say or to write and to publish whatever he chooses under any and all circumstances...
Potent Unitarian Bradford, however, was in no mood for such tiptoe tactics. "We must have a central Christian pur pose,", he warned. ";A faith which believes in everything believes in nothing. If Unitarianism is.to be merely a secular debating society, let's take the word 'faith' out of it. I cannot worship the mind...