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...spell out this drama Mr. Cooke begins with a background scene--a description of the atmosphere of the thirties. He wants to remind readers that millions of Americans turned to Communism and other radicalism, of the right as well as the left, in a period when old values were toppling, depression gripped the country, and the Western Powers were allowing Fascist Germany to grow. In this part of his book Mr. Cooke discusses a range of subjects from the N.R.A. to the Anschluss. He makes his point...
...Outside is a sign, 'What Hath God Wrought?' It is to remind you what God hath wrought. Friends everywhere have helped. They felt we were building a Christian citizenship here in the hills. A Middlesboro [Ky.] Jew gave a substantial check. Catholics in Middlesboro and Pineville have helped...
...Guide claims to present an accurate picture of student opinion. This claim is not alone explicit; it is implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions...
...position to remind them that such action would permit the North Koreans to get ready for another invasion. The U.S. can and probably will argue for the unification of the Korean Republic-which will mean the destruction of Communist control north of the 38th parallel...
...prefer cats. During the Depression, their story goes, hosts of U.S. citizens sold their dogs short and bought cats. This may have been an economy measure. But "I cannot help feeling," the Lockridges quote one social commentator, "that, unconsciously at least, they wanted an animal that would not remind them of bond salesmen...