Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protestant Minister Willard Johnson wrote: "The whole problem of relationship of religion to government remains to be settled. . . . This is certainly one part of the 'American Way' which is undergoing change. The historic attitudes of all religious groups, developed at a time when church and state were either united or struggling for dominance, cannot solve the problem. New concepts must be developed for modern conditions, and they should be set forth by all creeds together...
Furthermore in the technical wizards lies the key to the relationship between the independently-endowed Institute and Princeton proper. Hore the interplay of staff is most evident. Hungarian-born John von Neumann secured the collaboration of Princeton's economist Oskar ("Business Cycles") Morganstern in his comprehensive mathematician's-eye view of economic phenomena. Von Neumann currently supervises construction of the Princeton calculator, and electronic digital affair differing from Harvard's in the same fashion as the University of Pennsylvania's "Eniac," which chooses a course of action rather than "thinks...
...Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. suggested that the first constructive step towards combatting witch hunts while preserving security would be to differentiate "between the rights of an American citizen and the rights of a government employe in a security agency." To make the teaching profession seem to bear a vital relationship to government security would be a small task for experienced red-baiters. If it is to be effective, opposition to the Barnes bill must straightjacket this sort of political sleight-of-hand...
...Planck's particular specialty, thermodynamics (the behavior of heat), there was a "revolutionary situation." Planck (and many others) had been studying the effect of a body's temperature upon the wavelengths of the light and heat which it radiates. They suspected that a fundamental relationship was lurking somewhere, but could not find...
...Americans to reconsider their hastily accepted attitudes, he, like Socrates, calls as well for practical action to develop a progressive social policy. For those who argue about the validity of a position in political affairs, a point arises where concrete action becomes necessary-that is, there is a close relationship between political theory and practical politics...