Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is involved," said the University head, "is an attitude, a state of mind, which influences a man's whole character and guides his reactions to-ward both persons and problems. Two manifestations of this attitude will be a deep sense of social responsibility and a firm conviction that the golden age lies ahead of us, not behind...
Twenty-five years after the era of the Stutz Bearcat and the racoon coat the undergraduate is passing by the classics to jump up end down on the atom. The social isolation of Harvard's first 300 years has been washed away in the revitalizing democratization process of its last 15. Harvard's horizons have broadened and Harvard's "A" has narrowed. But Harvard's crew still rows four miles against Yale at the end of June and all the accompanying hoopla is still there...
McCloy never drinks coffee or tea, takes only an occasional social Scotch & soda. He likes cigars, which his wife bans at home, and chocolate drops, which he also nibbles in his office. He reads incessantly, even props a book before him as he shaves, always carries an Oxford Book of Verse on his travels, collects volumes on fishing* and military science, stages reading debates with himself-i.e., follows simultaneously three or four books on the same subject but with different slants...
...same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
...thought, or the dogmatic authentication of the sources from which it is derived. Some clerics do agree, and the cases of Quebee and Spain certainly provide strong arguments for the possibility of compromise between Catholicism and fascism. But the blanket implications which Mr. Blanshard draws are politically naive. The social facts in Spain and the United States are only slightly comparable. His simple use of the Papist bug-a-boo as the enduring prime mover of unsavory isms is just too easy...