Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...juniors or sophomores who are interested or think they are interested should drop in at the CRIMSON Building tonight...
...lack of freedom abroad out of one side of his mouth, and out of the other damns the quality of the candidates at home, and refuses to vote. The same goes for the man who is too lazy to vote, or too busy, or too anything else you can think of. The right to vote is one of the big issues of the times; the duty to vote when you have the right is clear, simple, and absolute...
...evident, therefore, that a profound gulf lies between America's avowed ethical standards and the observable realities of national life. What may be more alarming is the gap between what Americans think they do and what they...
...Journal draws a conclusion: "The remarkable point is that as many as one-quarter think that they practice the highest, transcendent form of love-love of one's enemy . . . These figures are dramatically incompatible with the facts of American behavior as revealed on every level of national existence today...
Mann himself doesn't think that parallel should be pushed too far. Said he in Los Angeles: "Both sold their souls to the Devil, but my hero is much more representative of the tragedy of the times." Mann, now 73, has been carrying the Faustus idea around for two-thirds of his life ("I wrote the first little note for it in 1901"). His preoccupation with illness goes back at least that far. Mann does not believe that illness is a source of artistic activity, "but if genius already exists, it stimulates it. It depends on who is sick...