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...then called "a grand theater, for the trial of all new plans in hygiene and education, in physical and moral reform." The grand design applied to lunatic asylums and poorhouses as well. Order, discipline and cleanliness benevolently imposed in public institutions would rehabilitate the criminal, conquer insanity and resurrect the indigent. Social Philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave Auguste de Beaumont noted after an official look at New World progress that Americans had made a profession out of "philanthropy." With a touch of Gallic skepticism, they added the phrase "which to them seems the remedy for all the evils...
Most professors contacted saw the speech as an attempt to resurrect public support for a policy of gradual withdrawal. "He was clearly making an emotional appeal for support," remarked Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government...
Albert, an Amherst graduate and Yale Drama dropout, has directed "The Proposition," Cambridge's long-running improvisational review, since June 1969. He plans to operate the Charles on a year-round basis in an effort to resurrect the theatre from its current moribundity...
...since World War II has the U.S. known a war or insurrection that truly, clearly, came to an end-the capitulation signed, the sword surrendered. Not in wars fought: Korea and Viet Nam. Not in conflicts passionately witnessed: Cuba, Hungary, the Middle East, Kashmir. If the Nigerians can resurrect the validity of reconciliation and make a peace that is not war by another name, they may restore an almost forgotten concept to the U.S. arsenal of expectations...
Gradually, more and more Crimeds returned to the College ready to resurrect the paper. Finally, on April 9, 1946, the CRIMSON reappeared. A black flag hung from the bronze ibis atop the Lampoon building to make things official...