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Their myopia is especially strong when they envision Harvard as a completely cosmopolitan college. This contention rests upon the dual claims of unreserved acceptance of large numbers of foreign students, and eager susceptibility to international influences ranging from Austin-Healy's to Zen Buddhism. Both these claims are more attractive than true. Foreign students are accepted on the same basis as all others, more often despite than because of their foreign origins and customs. The college community is liberal enough not to be suspicious of outsiders, but it is not particularly interested in them either. The typical foreign student...
Adlai E. Stevenson told a Boston Democratic fund-raising dinner ($25 a plate) that the President "speaks for all of us" in refusing to be forced out of Berlin. But calling upon his party "to make good the perilous deficiencies of the executive branch," Stevenson suggested that the West can afford to negotiate toward disengagement in Central Europe. "We must face the fact that no Russian withdrawal can be secured without a modification of the Western position," he said. "In order to take, we will have to give...
Having wigwagged one relaxing message to the West, the Soviet boss felt called upon to resume his menace. He rose to make an impromptu speech. "Elbow us and we will break your elbow," he growled. "The Western countries who want to maintain the state of war do not want to secure peace. If you want to frighten us, all right, we are frightened. But do not go on frightening...
...quietly set up two locals with 1,200 members. Alarmed, Smallwood last week bounced into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted of "heinous crimes...
...theology. From it he derives what he calls "the Protestant Principle," the necessity of challenging the claim to pure, "unbroken" truth by any institution or church, including Protestantism itself, or even by Scripture. From it he derives his all-important distinction between religious "heteronomy," which is imposed upon the individual, and religious "autonomy," in which the individual continually seeks and hopes to find. The situation of doubt, says Tillich, is "existential"-that is, inevitably part of the predicament in which man leads his human existence-and this existentialism, he feels, is where the Christian Church is grounded...