Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in February Catalonia was collapsing like a punctured balloon. One day Colonel Enrique Lister, one of the commanders who led the Loyalists in their last-ditch stand, ordered him to evacuate his Gerona hospital of its sick and wounded. Dr. Vidal protested that many of the patients were too frail to be moved. Thereupon Colonel Lister got so very angry that he ordered shot down not Dr. Vidal, but Dr. Vidal's 28-year-old wife and 24 doctors, nurses and attendants...
...political or criminal. They were also reported to be pondering whether to exchange Colonel Lister for a French Communist Deputy who had been imprisoned at Alicante. If France either extradites or exchanges Colonel Lister, it was taken for granted that the Loyalist hero's next last-ditch stand would be before a firing squad...
...rather with respect to those educational functions which, because most intimately linked with world change, stand most in need of continual revision, that I believe our colleges, Harvard among them, have been content with less than real accomplishment. For every potential specialist in art, undergraduate classes include many young men and women who are not there because they wish to lay the basis for a professional career in art, nor even purely for the sake of the intellectual discipline involved, but rather as persons whose taste in art, though they will never be artists themselves, will be of consequence...
...many, or that any one of them does not have a useful function. The more the happier. Today's collegian is an amazingly introspective creature who will talk at dull length in Bedroom sessions about sex and himself. But when it comes to considering or taking a stand on those political issues which are hid very life hi is namby-pamby and lackadaisical. Europe is trotting merrily to hell, but there is hardly a student in Harvard who does nit read the headlines with merely idle curiosity or regard the eventuality of war with complete fatalism. Any burr under...
...What makes me particularly happy about my editorials is the fact that a great many college people have written in to commend my stand. It's really very heartening to see that a college now prepares its students to face world problems with good judgment. Publicity won't be able to put another World War over on them...