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...windows of St. Mary-le-Bow near by, commemorating John Milton with the expulsion scene from Paradise Lost, were shattered. And St. Giles Cripplegate, where Milton's remains lie, did not survive the bombings as it did the fire of 1666. It was here that Ralph Waldo Emerson asked: "Do many persons come to look at Milton's grave?" The reply: "Americans, sir." Other churches which suffered: St. Stephens Walbrook, one of the most admired of the works of Christopher Wren, St. Mary-at-Hill, St. Dunstan-in-the-East, and the Church of Our Lady of Victories...
...diplomacy are not to be solved merely by urging youth to stop disbelieving in ideals and principles. To decide the host of issues which confront him, the citizen must inform himself, and weigh and analyze the evidence in the light of possible alternatives and concrete, practical effect. Waldo Frank is a writer who agrees completely with Adler and Cram about the destruction wrought by the prevalence of empirical nationalism in intellectual circles and its penetration down through the educational system. Yet, in his latest book, "Chart for Rough Water", he takes the stand for which undergraduates are accused of being...
...worked on Broadway. Donlevy likes fishing, prospecting for gold, has a family fondness for whiskey. To liven his cinema slugfests, he sometimes tries to anger his opponents, then let them have it. Otherwise his dis position is peaceful. But he is never joshed on two subjects: his middle name (Waldo) and the toupee he wears professionally...
...your issue of June 17, you say that "Liberals Lewis Mumford and Waldo Frank quit The New Republic after 13 years as contributing editors, criticizing the do-nothing policy of the magazine (although The New Republic afterwards plumped for aid to the Allies...
...Lovejoy believes that it is good for a student to work his way through college, points out as exemplars Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul V. McNutt, Dartmouth's President Ernest Martin Hopkins, U. S. Senator Claude Pepper, Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen, Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium, Cinemactor Fredric March, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Pollster George Gallup. Self-supporting U. S. college students (about half of all undergraduates), he reports, earn $32,500,000 a year, get some $90,000,000 a year in scholarships or loans. Most...