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...radio were dousing the American public with speculative garbage about the "Dewey cabinet." When this hypothetical group vanished on November 3, the experts shamelessly began the same sort of ponderous gossip about Truman's advisers--who was scheduled to depart, and who was sneaking up fast on the inside for such-and-such an executive position...
...looks good? Valpey isn't mentioning names. "We can make anybody look great for three plays," he says when asked if he doesn't think such-and-such a back is running like a combination rhino-gazelle. "It wouldn't be fair to the boys to name names at this stage of the game. There's no lineup. We're sorting 'em and changing 'em around...
...many resolutions are being passed by churches [and] denominational bodies." The grand old man of foreign missions is quoted in the Protestant Voice: "This is a colossal escape mechanism. I have on file now 115 sets of elaborate resolutions. Certain bodies meet, deliberate, announce that they have come to such-and-such a conclusion, then they sit back on their oars and do nothing more. What we need is enlightened, imaginative and even revolutionary leadership in religion today...
...With such-and-such an income, what is the attitude of students toward the New Dial?" This cross-correlation question would be answered by a coefficient of correlation printed on a roll of paper which continually unwinds at one end of the tabulator when the machine is being...
Professor Sorokin's solution is incomplete; he admits this at the outset. He does not say such-and-such is the design for happiness. But, he does say that in seeking for the road to happiness, we must adopt a new attitude. First of all, we must accept the reality of absolute values, as exemplified in art, ethics, and religion; we must accept the reality of man and society, the reality of empirical data, and finally the infinite possibility of interpreting anything, within its own context, as real. He has certainly provided a means of relationship between narrow, closed orbits...