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Brooks Atkinson, who edited these essays, suggested that they be limited to a thousand words apiece, but as he explained in the introduction, "Since every word a Harvard man writes is precious and represents a deliberate alliance with God, I have not dared to eliminate much." The collection is sprinkled with big names: Pusey, Conant, S. N. Behrman, Van Wyck Brroks, Dos Passos, Learned Hand, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Senator John F. Kennedy, and John P. Marquand. Also are two having more recent experience of Harvard College: Michael Dean Butler '56, and Jonathan Kozol '58, who contribute two of the longest...
...years ago, educational standards in American schools and colleges were even lower than today. But if in 1900 our schools did their job inadequately, they at least knew what they were trying to do and how they should do it. They were going to teach subjects which over two thousand years had proven valuable. And the people who taught these subjects were supposed to have mastered their disciplines and, therefore, be competent to incalculate others with them...
...development of one. That presumption was far from an established fact. "Five hundred and sixty miles is only the distance from Bonn to Vienna," growled West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. "It does not prove they can fire anything parallel to the earth over a distance of many thousand miles." And even if Sputnik did imply Russian possession of an early version of an ICBM, the balance of atomic superiority still lay with the U.S. "The threat of devastation still hangs heavy over the Soviet head, derived from the ring of bomber bases. We know nothing to suggest that...
...were subdued by a drizzling rain. At one point the Reds on the hill organized a sortie against their adversaries, but what with the mud and all, gave up after firing a single wild shot. The Italian government helpfully recognized the anti-Communist government, then sent a couple of thousand police to set up a blockade on all roads leading into the embattled republic, in the hope of starving out the Communists ("Italy will not send her tanks into San Marino," proclaimed Italy's Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella righteously). The U.S. sent its young consul splashing through...
...this recognition, with all its formidable consequences for the future of social organization, we owe above all to Freud . . . Man's chief enemy and danger is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him. If our race is lucky enough to survive for another thousand years the name of Sigmund Freud will be remembered as that of the man who first ascertained the origin and nature of those forces, and pointed the way to achieving some measure of control over them...