Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the openly radical proposals of socialization won approval from up to a third, Harvard students reserve their overwhelming support for the "liberal" status quo. Two-thirds support such "Welfare State" projects as Social Security and Federal regional power development. Not surprisingly, current "liberal" proposals receive similar impressive backing: four-fifths approve of Federal aid to public secondary schools; two-thirds, of American economic and non-military technical aid to other countries at its present level, of national health insurance, of Federal aid to private colleges and universities, of government wage and price controls to check inflation; and half...
Most newsworthy was the inaugural season of the MeBAC Theatre across the Charles River in Brighton. The structure is the first State-constructed theatre in the country and the first professional theatre to be built in the Boston area since 1925. The actual erecting began on May 7. Bad weather and a series of mishaps threatened to make the July 9 opening impossible. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers and stake-drivers were still working. But at 8 o'clock Governor Furcolo was able to officiate at the impressive ribbon-cutting ceremony, backed by the firing of cannon...
...think the concept of the national state has become so dangerously anachronistic that the U.S. should take the risks involved in surrendering some of her sovereignty, in a serious attempt at achieving a strong international federation or world government...
...course, the prevailing state of Blissful Indifference is not entirely the student's fault. Finding himself confronted with an intellectual dilemma, he can either assert without adequate knowledge, or remain silent and ineffective. In addition to appearing the lesser of these two evils, silence is also easier...
Possibly all this indicates a more alert awareness on the part of the latter group of the nuclear holocaust such a conflict would almost certainly entail--as well as a greater reluctance to identify the survival of a North American nation-state with the good of higher culture everywhere and for all time. If so, a deeper moral concern with the fate of this world may be adumbrated here--as well as a strikingly universal sense of direct ethical responsibility...