Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tipping the Balance Toward Ultimate...
...only those hour exams (for undergraduates only) or mid-term grades (for undergraduates only). They surely annoy the College student enough by themselves, but they are joined along toward the first third of the term by another device designed to excite the undergraduate's jealousy: monitors...
...walks into his course meeting one day, aims toward his customary area of repose, and looks around for his expected companions. "They must be tired," he thinks, as he perceives an astonishing group of neatly but unfamiliarly shaped heads around him. "They'll want to see my notes...
Geofirey White's analysis is frankly more cynical. To him it signifies "the beginnings of a new type of society," with Masaryk symbolic of bourgeois liberal opposition to "its conditions." To me, this statement exemplifies the callous disdain Communists held toward personal freedoms, and points up the careful hypocrisy with which they continue to use civil liberties in all democracies...
...rediscovered faith, Joad says: "It affords me a light to live by in an ever darkening world." The world's irreligion he does not blame on the churches, but on the people "who won't listen." He confesses to a leaning toward Anglo-Catholicism, but is un-Joadishly diffident about airing his theological views. "I am such a new boy at this," he explains, "that I'd better not say any more about...