Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haan, a lean, rock-jawed preacher, refuses to say outright whether he has ever seen a Hollywood movie. But he knows from reports, he says, that they are loaded with "sex, drunkenness and crime ... a hindrance to the Kingdom of God." A cigar-smoker and a bowler, Haan denies that his people are narrow. "We are as broadminded as the Word of God allows us to be. . . . [But] we don't want movie actors and actresses to be the educators of our children...
Europeans find little to cheer about. Thirty-four months after V-E day, recovery has come so slowly-so much hope has been deferred-that few can bring themselves to say they feel better off (though engaged couples, newlyweds, and young lawyers busy with their first cases nearly always do say so). In Sweden, in Switzerland and in Italy most say that their condition is "the same." In Britain, France and the U.S. Zone of Germany, most say "worse...
...Which two [freedoms] do you think it is most important to have? 1) The right to say or write what one believes without fear of punishment? 2) The right to work at any job one chooses? 3) Protection from unreasonable interference by police? 4) The right to vote in a fair and free election to decide who shall govern the country? 5) The right to private ownership of business...
...Wonder. Europe's pride is the tender and assertive pride of age. The fashion now among such British intellectuals as Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Essayist Cyril Connolly is to say that only the dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more...
...physical damage of war can perhaps be repaired. It is superfluous to say: this will not be enough. We know it. Europeans know it. The relevant question is whether anything can be enough; whether there is still in Europe the making of a real revival...