Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to nominate Arturo Toscanini .. .because he is the greatest living musician. ... He sets the ultimate in standards for musicians and music lovers throughout the world...
Formed only last year, the Art Association has planned a series of lectures over the year culminating in a spring exhibit of Harvard artists' work. While the lectures will cater primarily to those who wish to paint, discussions on the history of art will also be included...
Along with periodical dictums on American freedom by those stern guardians of national safety J. Parnell Thomas and John Rankin, a statement by another authority has been receiving considerable publicity lately. His name-Thomas Jefferson. His words-"If there be any among you who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat...
...radicals claim that nobody can hurt the country as long as true democracy is strong and vital. The fact is that, unlike movie stars, unlike writers, and unlike teachers, many civil service employees are in charge of business which must be carried out completely and unquestionably without any "wish to dissolve the Union." These are the men who handle or have access to secret diplomatic and military information in a world far more complex and explosive than Thomas Jefferson...
...relations committee, said she would take her case to court. She added: "I'm not afraid of sticking my neck out and getting my name smeared all over. I feel strongly." In Manhattan, Iris' mother gave her worried approval: "I know she has done right. . . . But I wish she'd let someone else tilt lances at windmills...