Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show the inconsistency of the liberal mind, he told a story about Mrs. Roosevelt. In her regular question-and-answer column in the Woman's Home Companion, she had been asked whether she would shake the hand of either Senator McCarthy or Andrei Vishinsky. She said she would shake with both. The next week, she was asked whether she would have shaken with Hitler. She would have, Mrs. Roosevelt answered, in Hitler's early years; but not after he had started his mass killings. Reminding his audience that Vishinsky had been responsible for some mass killings himself, Buckley offered this...
...Would he shake hands, asked one cynic, with anyone whom he knew had shaken hands with a Communist...
After making it clear he would not have shaken hands with Hitler either, he tried to drop the subject. No luck. A student who had been to Europe on a Fulbright Scholarship asked him about Franco? Yes, said Buckley, he would shake hands with Franco. Franco and not Stalin? "The meaning of his life is different from that of Stalin...
...alarmed alumni pour into the President's office every day, asking if Socialism and anarchy are on the rampage among undergraduates. When faculty members speak in the Midwest, someone always rises to ask if Harvard is really the hot-bed of hair-brained Radicalism that newspapers allege. Old grads shake their heads mournfully and agree the place is going to the dogs. Harvard is more restless, more turbulent, more individual in its thoughts than ever before...
Approximately every four years the College's political clubs shake themselves from their lethargy to launch wild attacks on each other. After a few weeks the effort seems to overcome them and they quickly slip back into inactivity. While political debates continue in dormitory rooms and newspapers, local partisan groups ignore each other, their members thoroughly engrossed in agreeing with themselves...