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...Harvard Student Union scheduled a rally for the morning of April 20, 1940, and arranged for Michael J. Quill to address the gathering. (This is the same Michael J. Quill who died earlier this year leading the New York transit worker's strike.) Quill was, even then, a prominent leader of the CIO and president of the Transport Workers Union. Objecting to the "pseudo-peace stand" and the Communist affiliations of the Student Union, the Harvard Anti-War Committee planned a rival peace meeting the afternoon of April 20, with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, as guest speaker...
...Harvard Student Union scheduled a rally for the morning of April 20, 1940, and arranged for Michael J. Quill to address the gathering. (This is the same Michael J. Quill who died earlier this year leading the New York transit worker's strike.) Quill was, even then, a prominent leader of the CIO and president of the Transport Workers Union. Objecting to the "pseudo-peace stand" and the Communist affiliations of the Student Union, the Harvard Anti-War Committee planned a rival peace meeting the afternoon of April 20, with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, as guest speaker...
Thomas prevented any chance of uniting the two rallies when he refused to speak on the same platform with Quill, whom he accused of being "too close to Stalin." The rallies, although eventually held separately, attracted more than 1000 people...
...always combined its readiness to innovate not only with a strain of political conservatism-stronger at some times than at others-but with an unshakable confidence in the American idea. American politics have changed profoundly. While the Senate may retain its quill pens and snuffboxes as hallmarks of tradition, a whole world of florid political oratory, provincialism and paternalism has given way to a youthful, hard, professional approach. Still, such major innovations as the New Deal were possible only because they could take place within the framework of basic American tradition. Some of the most drastic recent changes in American...
...game of suspense, Mistress Radcliffe can tease with the best of them, and in the art of natural description she can pile a crag or plummet a chasm with any man short of Scott himself. True, the dear lady is one of the ickiest prigs who ever put quill to scented paper. Yet if in 1794 her virginal vaporings came on as symptoms of high sensibility, in 1966 they come off as conventions of high comedy. All unintentionally, Udolpho is one of the funniest books ever written, a travesty of the romantic ethos that reads at times like a collection...