Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard weekend's here!. I've been dreaming about this weekend ver since I could dream. But why did I decide to go with a Yalie? My dorm has disowned me going with a Yale man. And now Leo's ostracized me just cause I said I wouldn't root for Yale at the game. (Harvard HAS to win now.) He said all the other girls, from self-respecting girls' schools, are already over by the piano learning the songs. I said I knew the Crimson cheers, so he left...
...Enemy of the People" deals with the root problem of democracy: are the common people, the "popular majority," competent to rule, or should the government be entrusted to the superior few, the intellectual supermen? The theme is alive today as it has never been before, and yet Ibsen's play fails to make it live on the stage...
Never did Root's words ring truer than they did last week. At the General Assembly of U.N. another Secretary of State, George Marshall, rose to launch a new debate on the course of history. The Soviets' Andrei Vishinsky answered him and (said the New York Times) "his vehemence left many of his listeners stunned and heartsick" (see INTERNATIONAL...
...This inclination to find the root of all evil in the sins of the other and not in those of the self is as wrong as it is natural. There ought, however, to be some resource in the Christian church to counteract it; for the Christian faith insists that the primary encounter in human life is not between good and evil men, nations or institutions, but between all men and God. 'Whosoever thou art that judges,' declares St. Paul, 'thou thyself doest the same thing.' . . . The root of all Christian charity lies in the contrite recognition...
...under attack, and that only disloyalty to Christ could have prompted the criticism. There is a curious pathos in this performance; for the bishops could hardly understand that from the Protestant standpoint it is precisely this unqualified identification of Christ with the historic church which is the root of all Catholic heresies and the cause of Catholic intolerance...