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...institutions, but comparisons between something far more striking and instructive-comparisons between attitudes, tacit assumptions, the thought world of students that I have known throughout the decades of my teachings." At Harvard's commencement last week, dressed in a rumpled blue suit and glancing occasionally at a thin sheaf of notes, Teacher Wilder eloquently summed up what he had learned about U.S. youth today: a sense of the unity of mankind...
...sheaf of reflections on liberty, society, government and man's fate in general is covered in Dominations and Powers...
Angel on Furlough. His latest work, Dominations and Powers, a sheaf of reflections on liberty, society, government and man's fate in general, is written with the luminous grace of an angel on furlough and the clinical detachment of a onetime Harvard professor...
...White House aide, leafing through a routine sheaf of wire copy from the news ticker, started with surprise. He had come across the report of Joe Martin's speech, made that afternoon in the House, containing General Douglas MacArthur's letter endorsing the employment of Chiang Kai-shek's troops to open a second front in China. The aide rushed in to the President's office. As he read, Harry Truman flushed with anger. As the White House leaked the story later, he made his decision then & there-Thursday, April 5-that Douglas MacArthur must...
...Twenty-eight other major U.S. symphonies, some 20 minor musical organizations and 600 school orchestras are being hurt by the same tax squeeze, said Blair. So is the Metropolitan Opera, which last year paid $410,000 in amusement taxes, wound up with a deficit of $430,000. Handing a sheaf of letters to committeemen, Blair told them: "Here [is] the answer to the question of what music means to the American people. What are you going to do about...