Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sentiment v. Practicality. Some of the present, not-yet-departed great recorded their indignation. Cried learned Sir Arthur Salter (one of Oxford's two M.P.s): "It is a blow ... at learning and education . . . when many people . . . are asking what ... is going to be Socialist equality. Is it going to be a leveling down or a leveling up?" Snapped Sir Alan Patrick Herbert (the other Oxford M.P.) in a letter to the Times: "If we ... are so little thought of by our colleagues, I, at least, do not . . . feel warmly inclined for public service elsewhere." He resigned from the Board...
...sentiment of that, October 19 gathering weighed heavily on the side of the last of the three proposals. Only one vote, that of Richard G. Axt '46, of the fourteen members of the Committee was recorded in favor of the Student Activities Center, and one, that of Dr. Augustus Thorndike '19, for the Medical Center...
Marxism last week made men fight in the ragged mountains of Greece. It inspired strikes in Seoul, Korea, and San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy. A Shanghai girl student asked a boy to write in her autograph book. Instead of an affectionate personal sentiment, he wrote: "What is the reason for the existence of people who reap wealth without laboring?" Marx, who guided the Chinese boy's hand, was also last week the most important man in the world's two great centers of power, the U.S. Congress and Moscow's Politburo...
...South, says Niebuhr, the evangelical churches could not cope with the moral issue of slavery and therefore channeled their energies into "a scrupulous legalism, expressed in extravagant rules of Sabbath observance and a prurient attitude toward sex problems." In the North, evangelicalism "degenerated into that mixture of religious sentiment and the worship of prosperity, success and comfort which inevitably . . . obscures, rather than clarifies, the real issues of life...
...Spectacular" demonstration of University sentiment in the shape of a full-scale puplic rally early in March will climax the program of the new Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, student chairman Vincent P. Moravec '50 announced last night...