Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First are "the purists," who believe that in these tough times the best hope for mankind is for idealists to build "oases" of humaneness and brotherly love. Stringing along with them, largely out of spiteful hope of seeing the experiment fail, are "the realists," cynical ex-Commies who still retain ("from their Leninist days") the smug and fanciful notion that they are a revolutionary elite. Steeped in a Marx-cum-Freud conviction that no man can "resist history, environment, class structure, psychic conditioning," the realists take for granted that all oases which spring from mere individual initiative are sure...
...Phoenix,* which like most London theaters is not air-conditioned, gentlemen sweltered in their heavy dinner jackets, martyrs to the myth that London never really gets hot. In the House of Commons, the Serjeant at Arms permitted newsmen to remove their jackets (although honorable member's had to retain their coats and ties). To Playwright William Douglas Home Princess Margaret granted the privilege of dining with her at a London nightclub in his shirtsleeves. It was hot in other places than England. In West Germany, where the thermometer hovered around 95°, businessmen rebelled against the tyranny of male...
...Allies will retain certain key powers of control vested in three civilian high commissioners...
However, not only is the end product of the subtle argument dangerous; its internal reasoning is vulnerable. First, some professors are of sufficient value to the party as "names" so that they are allowed to retain a considerable measure of intellectual freedom. Second, many Marxist teachers deviate from the party line as much as Democrats or Republicans do in their thinking. Finally, there is considerable value to be gained from an objective presentation by these men of an ideology which is now in competition with our own. At least they may bring up for re-examination some of the accepted...
Whether the Sphinx Club will be able to retain its name and whether it will be able to exist at all as a bona fide Harvard organization must await a decision of the faculty. Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 announced yesterday...