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...highly esteemed civilization . . . destroys the very qualities which have produced it: initiative, independence, intellectual resourcefulness. A generation . . . born in confusion, suckled in tumult, reared with cars, radios, movies, comics and picture magazines, can hardly [grow up into] reflective, sober, well-rounded young people...
Under the tumult and the shouting, observers felt the confident, mighty ground swell of a party moving forward-a party that, after long exile, knew itself once more as representative of the nation...
Western Europe watched last week's political hoedown with its heart in its mouth. But Europe's politicians were learning that they need not worry much about the tumult and shouting of the U.S. political campaign. If they had learned enough, they watched one man. That man was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...Christians are . . . frequently guilty of a graceless and self-righteous legalism, lacking in charity toward those who have been worsted by the tumult of their own passions. There is nothing in the present situation to encourage complacency among those of us who call ourselves Christian. Yet we do have at least a tenuous hold upon a dimension of existence which is not touched in this Report . . . The modern naturalism which seeks to solve the problems of man's sexual life by treating him as an animal, only slightly more complex than other brutes, represents a therapy which implies...
After 16 days of tumult and picketing, striking clerks, pages and elevator operators returned to their jobs on the New York Curb Exchange. The members of Local 205, United Financial Employes, A.F.L. had won little: the Curb agreed to change its pre-strike offer of a temporary 10% cost-of-living bonus to a straight 10% wage raise, but it did not grant demands for a union shop and it insisted on a two-year contract...