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...continued, General Education is an antidote. It is not a synonym for liberal education, which cannot be negative, but must be a positive affirmation...
...questions and the problems of Religion have changed, however. They have changed because Harvard is in many respects a synonym for liberalism, and because liberalism has become ever more liberal. They remain persistent and difficult...
...Western strategy was to expose and exploit Russia's fear of entrusting the future of Germany to the ballot box. With skill and force, France's Bidault led the prodding and taunting. "In all political systems, freedom has a synonym-that is, risk," said Bidault. "A united Germany will have freedom to choose . . . We are prepared to take that chance...
...imported dancing. When Vienna's famed Fanny Elssler danced in Washington nearly a century before, Congress declared itself a holiday. During World War I, Pavlova had packed Manhattan's Hippodrome (on a bill with elephants and Chinese jugglers), went on to make The Dying Swan a synonym for ballet across the nation. Nijinsky had toured the country in 1916, was already a legendary dancer...
...France? Why should a nation that has successfully survived a thousand years be always on the brink of disaster? Why should a nation that blazed the Continent's trail to democracy be unable to govern itself? Why should a nation whose name has ranked for centuries as a synonym of enlightenment and intelligence be unable to make up its mind? No one ponders these questions more earnestly than the French themselves. As France sulked proudly at the sting of the U.S. Secretary of State's rebuke and vacillated helplessly over the choice of a President who would exercise...