Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting. My reading of this "intellectual giant" (?) has been for the avowed purpose of keeping myself informed concerning his obvious lack of intellectual and moral discipline in evaluating the tremendous problems ui our times. I am numbered among many who would be most grateful if Lippmann would take a stand that could endure the test of time, in other words, a stand characterized by the tenets of a philosophical-political-moral truth...
...annual report on the State of the Union. His message was closely reasoned, bluntly presented with occasional flashes of eloquence, and positive in its nature. Dwight Eisenhower urged and set forth a program for fiscal responsibility, not of the sort that stifles growth but of the kind that can stand as a springboard for national progress...
...another year, in different political circumstances, the speech might have been hailed for its firm stand on principle. But in Year 1959 it was met with coolness by the Democratic 86th, as, for example, when Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, with the television eye on him. smothered a yawn at the very moment that President Eisenhower promised to present a balanced budget...
Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, also thought that Reunions centered in the Houses were "a likely development," but he said they would be "slow in coming." Technical problems would stand in the way of lodging returning alumni in their former Houses, he asserted...
...didn't expect such treatment," the spokesman continued. "We have served the Boston community for six years, with 36 productions, and now we feel we've been betrayed. MEBAC pretends to stand for the good of the community. Apparently the protection of the Cambridge Drama Festival means more to them than principles...