Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page book entitled "Courses of Instruction" (non-fiction) appeared in Cambridge over the weekend and sold out within five hours...
Harlow Shapley and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., two lifelong liberals and strong advocates of intellectual freedom, managed to come to grips over the weekend in a fashion which was admirably calculated to throw both a confusing and misleading light on the matter in question--the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York...
...communism--or even suspected communism--requires more than a hasty attack under the name of a temporary group. Any affirmation of the advantages of democratic government must rest on positive ideas, not on random shots at the other side--and the Soviets will certainly make propaganda grist--of this weekend. We must use propaganda ourselves, and use it well, which is something that neither Schlesinger nor the State Department apparently considered when they went after the Reds in the Waldorf-Astoria woodpile...
Harlow Shapley yesterday evaluated the weekend Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace as "unexpectedly effective," and defended the three-day meeting against attacks claiming that it was "exclusively propaganda for the Soviet Union...
...resolution, adopted by about 2000 delegates contains three main points: (1)a demand to implement the United Nations as the best hope for peace. (2)an expression of cooperation with other peace movements throughout the world, and (3) plans for continuation of work started at the weekend meeting...