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...Critics. In his public utterances the President has often poured scorn on some willful little minority of dissidents. This time it was "a few newspapers and columnists and radio commentators." But he prepared thoughtful answers for several types of Administration critics. He took pains to reassure those who have feared that the U.S. is making, or might some day make "expedient" deals with Fascists. Said he: "The basic traditions and ideals of this Republic are being closely followed in U.S. foreign policy. "We shall not be able to claim that we have gained total victory in this...
...picked up the cult of superman from Nietzsche, the creed of power from Machiavelli. Pareto taught him to despise democracy, Marx to scorn capitalism, and Sorel the myth of universal violence. He courted martyrdom, spat at priests, lived promiscuously with at least half a dozen women. Out of Marxism, jingoism and obscurantism he compounded a new thing called Fascism and imposed it on a nation weakened by war and frightened by social unrest...
...North Carolina. His book is a weighty, nonpopular examination of the numerous currents of thought that prepared 1) Germany for totalitarism, 2) the democrats for forgetfulness of the true nature of freedom and the need for faith in Christian virtues. No respecter of economic, political and psychological theories which scorn "the individual conscience" Author Kuhn wants a united front of religious groups, freethinkers "and other professors of an implicit faith...
...mistake. In 1890 he shifted to his uncle's drugstore in Chicago and saw a new world he despised. "The 'filthy rich' drove behind high-stepping horses drawing ornate equipages from which tall-hatted coachmen and footmen surveyed their surroundings with a truly devastating scorn." For three years Harold Ickes glared at "the intangible ingredients out of which a careful architect was to build a robust curmudgeonly character." He learned to mix Seidlitz powders in such a way that a glassful would explode "into the nostrils and the eyes" of a customer he disliked...
...days of David, and the nights we lodged; ciphers, done in red, catharsis, and those sponsored quests--all these, though never lost, are gone. But there remains the conscience and the purpose of our work, the spirit that obscures a thousand petty barriers, and knows no hate nor scorn...