Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overheated from the tea, I followed a group of freshmen infiltrating into the ballroom, in search of chocolate milk and root beer. "Now, I bet YOU play the piano!" a young lady was saying. "Not even chop sticks!" (She wiggled two fingers in the air to simulate the playing of chop-sticks.) "Hmm. There must be someone here...," she said, looking around the room...
...writes, that the idea first took root that psychoanalysis and religion could somehow lie down together and live happily ever after. "In America all races and creeds live and work peacefully side by side-why should not ideas do likewise? . . . It is . . .in such a benign climate of opinion that the current love affair between psychoanalysis and religion has been, time & again, consummated. There have been bickerings . . . and the Catholic Church has shown itself to be a rather frigid partner. But, all in all, things have gone well, and the occasional Catholic reserve has been more than made...
...classical associations, might have seemed to lack dignity as well. Among the best-planned and least assuming of those on exhibition was the Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns was low as death's door and suggested little beyond the threshold...
...Radford moved in to attack the whole theory of "atomic annihilation." Even if it could bring victory, which he doubted, "a war of annihilation would be politically and economically senseless . . . [and] morally reprehensible." Said Radford: "This basic difference of military opinion concerning the bombing blitz has been at the root of our principal troubles in unification...
...State Supreme Court is currently examining New York's Feinberg Anti-Subversive Law for symptoms of constitutionality. A number of civic and political groups have asked for a permanent injunction against the bill, which would root "disloyal" teachers out of New York public schools. These organizations claim the law would install "thought control" in the Empire State. The bill's framers say their measure will protect "children of tender years" from the Communist ideology...