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...have been an intermittent teacher all my life and when, as this year, I return to a university community. I find myself continually drawing comparisons, not comparisons between institutions but comparisons between something far more striking and instructive, comparisons between attitudes, tacit assumptions, the thought-world of students that I have known throughout the decades of my teachings: attitudes that we held in 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1930, attitudes that my students in the University of Chicago held in the '30s, and the attitudes which I see in the students around me this year. What a difference! What a difference...
...talking about tacit assumption, basic attitudes of so deep a level that they themselves are often not aware. But what they are aware of is that many of the concepts to which we older persons clung are to them irrelevant, irrelevant and irritating...
...very attentive to it. Now, freshmen and sophomores stop me on the street and visit me in my rooms to ask me about these very writers. And that shows us that these writers are fulfilling a profound need for those who live in stormy weather. And I find three tacit assumptions within their work that are reflected in the best young 20th century minds, assumptions that he could not have grasped...
First, the young person today in the light of science sees himself not as one of many hundred thousands, not as one of many millions, but as one of billions. Secondly, a whole new tacit assumption in relation to responsibility. And, thirdly, a realization that the things that separate men from one another are less important than the things that they have in common...
Eden, explained that the government had no intention of moving forces into Iran merely to protect oil installations, was reported to have won their tacit agreement. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison announced to a cheering House of Commons that Iran would be held responsible for the safety of British nationals, reported the dispatch of the 8,000-ton cruiser Mauritius, mounting nine 6-inch guns, to lie off the port of Abadan...