Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proponents blandly speak of its benefits: it will build up the health of the nation. The health of the nation is a job for the various agencies of public health, the school gymnasium, and the medical profession. They speak of education and in particular of vocational education. That too is the job of our public and private institutions. It is not the realm of the military. They speak of rearing the national youth to its responsibility of citizenship. Everyone knows that the Army is a buck-passing institution from the highest general to the lowest pfc. But few realize that...
This book is his effort to carry out the resolution he made in Athens-to survive and speak out. It is a damning document. Sometimes its sodden weight of human malevolence, its recurrent three-note theme of jailed, tried, shot, is all but unbearable. One little story, a tiny detail of suffering, could stand for the whole tragedy that it highlights. Marshal Tukhachevsky's twelve-year-old daughter was not informed that he had been liquidated overnight. But when she got to school the next day, the other children shouted abuse at her and refused...
...something resembling anarchy in education. Beginning in the high school, we have blocked off our young people into small groups, sending them into this or that vocational specialization or into uncoordinated electives. The result has been an education in disunity. What social cohesiveness is left is vocational. Bank- ers speak the language of bankers and lawyers are most comfortable in the society of other lawyers...
...worthy success of your profession depends on one essential fact: your fidelity to truth in what you write and speak...
...left school at 14, after fisticuffs with the teacher, to become a U.P. janitor and call boy. He had no boyhood to speak of, only work. His unboylike ambition was some day to become president...