Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's Council agenda includes two issues related to the AYD. Part of the discussion will probably center on the question of chartering temporary election-year groups. Possibly shelved for later discussion will be the debate on closer investigation of the loyalties of the clubs' petition-signers...
...says Dr. Niebuhr, has always been his own greatest problem child-the creature who continually asks: "What am I?" Sometimes he puts the question modestly: "Am I a child of nature who should not pretend to be different from the other brutes?" But if man asks this question sincerely, he quickly realizes that, were he like the other brutes, he would not ask the question...
...more exalted moods, man puts the question differently: "Am I not, indeed, the paragon of the creation, distinctive, unique, set apart and above it by my faculty of reason?" But man has only to observe himself in his dining, bath and bed rooms to feel a stabbing sense of his kinship with the animals...
...chastened mood, man says, "I am essentially evil," he is baffled by another question, "Then how can I be good enough to know that...
...consisting of women, children and the aged. Thousands of them walking, but a great number, even though they walk, will not live. During the immediately succeeding hours, and the dark days which follow, who will bear the burden of the professional care of the survivors?" He answered his own .question: civilian doctors. The Army doctors will be too busy...