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...tolerance, has joined the censor's list of sacrosanct doctrines. We have no quibble with advocating tolerance, a trait which many Americans lack, but lately groups like the NAACP have shorn it of much of its richest meaning. Time was when tolerance meant permitting anyone to sample whatever was thrust before him, providing that this fare was not prejudicial to the rights and privileges that a democracy ensures everyone else. But now many people are defining it as merely the absence of racial and religious discrimination, a view that is fast assuming the proportions of a strict party line...
Last week 41 of the accused, including the ringleaders, were found guilty (of murder, not treason) and sentenced to a total of 777 years. One Communist ringleader, who calls himself Franco, thrust his arm through the bars of his cage and shouted: "We are stronger than you! Long live the Italian resistance...
Innocence at Bay. The ironies in U.S. materialism became physically dangerous when the country was thrust, by its own power and success, into the leading position in world politics. Americans had always felt guilty about using power (except, of course, in an economic way); suddenly they found themselves forced to rely on an ultimate form of power, the atom bomb, to preserve peace. Americans had thought of themselves as the "tutors of mankind in its pilgrimage to perfection," innocent of ulterior ambition or guile. Now they found themselves "condemned in a court of public opinion" by have-not nations...
...this process-"to find the good in a poem . . . and to urge the young poet to thrust his verse in that direction"-a teacher sharpens a talent already there...
Defenders of abolishment have maintained that football players could compete in other spring sports which are "good conditioners for football." Jordan saved a sharp final thrust for that argument...