Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From this will develop a growth that will spread to the corners of the earth, bringing with it the kind of human message that only individuals-not government-can transmit. Here will develop a mighty influence for peace and understanding throughout the world." Then the President descended from the stand, and with a silver-bladed shovel turned three shovelfuls of the presoftened ground for the Philharmonic Hall, the Center's first, to be ready...
...psychological-warfare unit, but he got only feeble response. Behind him a captain rattled off a steady stream of orders to his men scattered through the audience. "Phantom Two to Phantom: when the speaker shouts 'Algerie,' you shout 'Franfaise!' Shout! Shout! Don't just stand there like sticks of asparagus...
...stand these creeps." says Jan. "Those are not creeps, my dear," says one of the creeps, "they are contacts with the heartbeats of a nation in decay." Among the heartbeatniks: Bummy Car-well (Larry Hagman), incipient novelist ("I'm a writer-I'm out there on the periphery handling unexploited materials"); Danny (Thomas Aldredge), a marijuana-fueled poet who mumbles about the "crypto-neo-reactionaries"; and Yogi (Del Close), a stubble-bearded anti-homosexual crusader who gets most of the show's laughs...
...moved in with a divorcee who was a painter, writer and Trotskyite trying to find her way back to the Roman Catholic Church. "She was going to Mass when I met her, so I went along because I couldn't stand being deserted. I hated the religion. Catholicism intruded a ritual between God and man. As an anarchist, I couldn't stand the idea of an institution between...
Basically, the Veritas group objects to the "liberal monopoly" at Harvard and elsewhere, which allows "subversives" to slip unnoticed into the Faculty, and which permits smug and "fuzzy-minded" liberalism to stand unchallenged within the academic community. Few deny the validity of their second criticism. Among most university faculties (and especially at Harvard) there is a certain devotion--often unquestioning--to Keynesian economics and the Democratic party, which, though hardly "subversive," shows an unhealthy onesidedness. Perhaps well-qualified and articulate spokesmen of the conservative position are hard to come by, but it is unfortunate that Harvard's faculty ranks...