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...great danger that always faced the primitive in his loyalties lay in the very strength of his allegiance, that strength which kept the totem valid long after its vital life force had disappeared. The formal totem became so fixed that life could depart from it, yet its magic suffered not, for man breaks his ideals and his gods but reluctantly, and a dead and meaningless symbol is better than no totem at all. And the very enthusiasm with which the artificial loyalty is buoyed does hurt to the reality and the force of the totem, stifling it and distorting...
NATO Progress Last week brought good news for NATO: ¶The U.S. finally decided that there were "valid reasons" for bringing Greece and Turkey into NATO, began polling the eleven other pact members, whose unanimous approval is required. Inclusion of the two nations, the free world's outposts on the southern flank of the Red empire, would mean extending NATO borders 800 miles eastward, but would also mean the addition of 525,000 well-trained troops to Eisenhower's army. Britain and France would prefer a separate regional pact in the Near East, but will go along with...
...there was also a more valid argument; it was put to the Senate by Richard Russell, Georgia's bachelor Senator, who presided over the hearings with an even-handedness that won the praise of Republicans and of MacArthur himself. "I have been disturbed in recent days," he told the Senate on the eve of the hearings, "because of the way we are running the Government, by taking action here in response to a quick expression of uninformed desire . . ." It was not a question of hiding facts from scrutiny; there would be facts spoken and documents discussed that could...
...know why I was recalled," said General MacArthur. "I am still completely uninformed, because the reasons contained in the order are not valid . . . I was operating in what I call a vacuum. I could hardly have been said to be in opposition to policies which I was not even aware of ... Any insinuation by anyone, however high his office, that I have ever in any way failed ... to carry out my instructions is completely unworthy and unwarranted. No more subordinate soldier has ever worn the American uniform...
...tradition of Alfred North Whitehead and William James, Harvard might be a leader in ethical-philosophic thought; Harvard might teach a realistic, meaningful and scientifically valid religion by having such principles in the fore at its Divinity School. But it seems that certain members of the corporation and the bureaucracy don't want a religious emphasis with some meaning for today's world. Hence such rationalistic, essentially skeptical criticisms as those by this Eliot House student have to be accepted, even though they apply to religion as the historically viewed opiate it has been...