Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geographer Sir Halford Mackinder (who expanded it in 1919 into the now reissued Democratic Ideals and Reality). Like Haushofer, Mackinder knew the significance of that stony string of sea bases that joined England to her colonies and dominions. What, he asked, could menace them and the sea power which upheld them? Answer: the possession of a body of land so vast and rich that sea power could never encircle it effectively. Mackinder saw such a body of land in what he called the "World-Island" -Europe, Asia, Africa. He imagined it as a mighty whole, pushing the British naval bases...
...They were disappointed. In his annual Christmas Eve message, Pius XII said: "The Church does not intend to take sides." Some were comforted, however, by the fact that he: 1) condemned states banning "ethics or religion" and "herding men as if they were a mass without a soul"; 2) upheld educational and religious freedom; 3) flayed racial persecution; 4) urged legislation to defend the worker's "rights as a person"; 5) called for an international crusade ("God wills it") to achieve world justice...
...upshot was that the Senate upheld the censors 34-to-2. Meanwhile the censors were feverishly banning not only cheap pornography but such books as Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed, one edition of Baedeker, the essays of William Ralph Inge, longtime "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's, and five bedtime stories. They also clamped down on most of the tales of the most distinguished Irish novelists, including Liam O'Flaherty...
...Hollywood baby talk for normal adult conversation, achieving striking success in its seemingly minor-key moments. The characters do not insist on mouthing Shakespearian lines at every turn, and when they do, it stands out in obvious and unsatisfactory contrast. Scattered complaints that the film is "mushy" can be upheld by pointing to those less likeable sections where the actors attend to the business of acting, but those condemnations are completely subordinated by the picture's masterful, off-guard body...
Those who upheld the new U.S. policy believed that President Roosevelt meant what he said when he termed the relations with Darlan a "temporary expediency." But with the shifty Admiral considering himself more & more of a permanent fixure (see p. 43). the next move...