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...event President Eisenhower, like Madison, would not be likely to instigate reprisals against the governor. But the U.S. is nonetheless determined to move through the courts, slowly, deliberately, sensibly, to win the battle and safeguard the Constitution. This was the determination, in the spirit of Marshall and Madison, that underlay the cold message sent to Orval Faubus last week by President Eisenhower...
...laws are not static, any more than society or human nature is static," said Britain's Lord Kilmuir as he set forth the proposition that underlay the panorama. "The roots, well grounded in history and watered by wisdom, are constantly putting out fresh branches and leaves for the comfort of mankind...
...battle was going on throughout the Communist world: a frantic attempt to fasten the guilt for the Hungarian revolt. Tito got caught in the crossfire. Pravda accused him of being an accomplice of the "counterrevolutionary" Nagy, and hinted that Tito's talk of "many roads to' socialism" underlay all the trouble. Tito, in turn, indignantly blamed Hungary on Moscow's failure to purge all the old "Stalinists." But he was also careful to disown Nagy, and to justify the use of Soviet tanks, thus supporting Moscow where it counted: in its crushing of the rebellion...
...renewed stress on cultural history as the proper subject of this field, we are only returning more actively to the principles that underlay the conception of this field at its beginning. Throughout the last twenty years, such fields as English and History have liberalized their concentration. We see no reason to try to duplicate what they, with better resources, are able to do. History and Literature justifies itself only to the extent that it does what other fields of concentration cannot do. This includes a genuine merging of the study of history with the study of literature. We wish...
...thought the most glaring fault was the lack of any dynamic of tonal norm whereby the long forte passages could be saved from conveying an impression of bombast and anti-climax. On the other hand the faith in Schubert's lyricism, which undoubtedly underlay the performance, was not pushed so far as to infuse each phrase, and as a result even ardent Schubert lovers would find it hard to apply to this performance Schumann's epithet of "heavenly length...