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...muscular political forces would then slug it out. Moderate Lubell wants the moderates to win-but not until there has been a good fight. "The continuing fight-not sweetness and light-is the hallmark of the American democracy. The hidden strength of our democracy springs from the very vigor with which we battle ourselves into unity . . . The time to worry about this country is not when we are battling among ourselves, for it is then that our democracy functions best. The time to worry is when all is 'moderation...
When a Republican Administration came to Washington in 1952, the correspondents put fresh vigor into their classic role as people's monitor over the Government. The publishers had overwhelmingly supported the Eisenhower candidacy, but they were not in Washington doing the prying and prodding that go with the day's work of the good reporter. It was the working press that kept asking what the President would do about Joe McCarthy (and what McCarthy would do about the President), whether "Engine Charlie" Wilson was going to sell his General Motors stock,* or if Republican appointees were trying...
Demagogic extremes in Washington and elsewhere have emphasized and heightened, I think, a widespread but vague public concern about the health and vigor of our free institutions. It is reassuring that this concern no longer proceeds on the naive assumption that our difficulties may be remedied by passing new laws or by mechanical tinkering with governmental commissions...
...submitting the Council's schedule change to the CEP, president Edward M. Abramson '57 stressed the fact that a longer vacation between semesters would result in increased student vigor, which would more than compensate for semester days lost. His statement was in effect a reply to the faculty's opinion that a vacation should not be arranged at the expense of working days...
...that Southern delegates will bolt the party. The chance that this will happen is increased by the accepted probability that Eisenhower will win whether or not the South bolts. Some Southerners may feel that 1956 is a good year to stand on "principle" and to express the vigor of their pro-segregation feelings through a third party...