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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American society-this cancer being the psychological norm. We are afraid to be different since we might be called neurotic or "crazy." We are afraid to live according to our Judeo-Christian-Buddhist principles since such an infinitesimal number live in this way. I hope your articles have restored sight to the blind...
...free of the big-state ideology. But in the presence of the Communist threat, it cannot stop conscripting its young men or the income of its people; nor can it fail to ask the scientists to help-on terms that will be onerous to them. Relief is not in sight -short of the time when a world monopoly of atomic weapons is established in the interest of justice, which both intellectuals and governments are supposed to serve...
...line of defense-the British navy-was under the command of a German-born prince named Louis of Battenberg. For all that he was a close relative of the royal family and a veteran of 45 years' devoted naval service, Prince Louis' name and ancestry were a sight too much for many patriotic Britons to bear. "I have lately been driven to the painful conclusion," wrote Britain's First Sea Lord in a letter of resignation as a raging sea of slurs rose about his ears, "that at this juncture my birth and parentage have the effect...
...great wave of romanticism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, some painters became so absorbed in expression that they lost sight of the limitations of their materials. Ralph Albert Blakelock, the American romantic landscapist (1847-1919), delighted in the rich gloss of bitumen, a poor-drying, brown pigment, which he used so excessively that the paint ultimately slipped on the canvas (e.g., in one of his landscapes owned by the Brooklyn Museum, paint ran down and over the frame). Edgar Degas, the French impressionist, striving for certain effects, sometimes reduced his paint to what he called essence by thinning...
...Chamber would have voted to seat him, because in retrospect many Senators realized that failure to grant Bilbo a committee hearing was an unjust violation of traditional Senate procedure. These Senators, then, were supporting an unsavory colleague because he had received unfair treatment. In doing this, they almost lost sight of the fact that Bilbo himself made unfairness a sword, and abusive language his cutting edge...