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...those who assume that Harvard is bubbling over with currency, let the Divinity School stand as a memorial to their error. For years now, income from the School's small and static endowment has failed by around $25,000 annually to cover the cost of religious instruction, and the Corporation has sweat blood over that. Unallocated funds, which the Corporation uses to cover this deficit, are the scarcest item in modern education, and the Governing Board cannot afford to spend them on anything but the most vital needs. Graduate schools ordinarily do not qualify. As a matter of policy they...
...World War II, it seemed that rapid movement had become a permanent feature of armed struggle. But in Korea there has been almost no movement for more than a year. The Korean fighting of recent weeks is much like the static, Hindenburg Line phase of World War I. In Korea, as in World War I, much of the fighting is done with rifles, bayonets, grenades, machine guns, mortars, artillery. Barbed wire, trenches and dugouts have conspicuously reappeared as the war enters its third costly winter...
...neighbor and "the dignity of work" (plus a reminder that Christians can count on the Christian Democratic Union Party to lead them "to unity in political action"). Further on, the Communist line gets clearer. Samples: ¶"Progressive Christians have all been moved by the conviction that Christianity cannot be static but must be in a state of holy flux . . . [They] hold it as only natural ... to remove antiquated forms and look for new ones." ¶"Without being a follower of dialectical materialism, the Christian must recognize as correct the foundation of economic analysis in Marxism and Leninism." ¶"Socialism today...
Increased population does not explain all of the gain in Republican areas. In Manhattan, where there has been no great change in population, registration increased in most election districts that went Republican in 1948, remained static or fell off in most of the Democratic districts...
...individual" and adopt "positive rebellion" as a pattern and a way of life, 2) root out the "adjustment fallacy" and replace it with the "evolutionary principle of protest," and 3) rebuild the educational system and the science of psychology on "the vital forces of mastery rather than static survival...