Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkan peanut; it has a population almost twice as great as that of Russia itself. 2) It is an Oriental culture, whereas the Sovict Union has become steadily Westernized. 3) There is a great deal of rugged territory between Moscow and Peking, and remote control does not work very well when it is that remote. 4) The Chinese liberated themselves in the last war; there was no Russian Army to parade in the streets and insure "free" elections...
Bush feels that we must make democracy work to keep itself prepared for at least a generation, working at the same time to extend this democracy throughout the world. His definition of democracy is a broad one--it includes using our technical progress unselfishly to achieve economic as well as political freedom. This makes good sense indeed...
...same interview system that gives this book strength and color also makes it something less than an impartial work. Mr. Alinsky, who is a long-time acquaintance of Lewis, tends to over-emphasize his central character at the expense of the other men with whom the founder of the CIO has dealt...
This is no definitive work; the author makes no pretenses to such an object. But it is an interesting job in the man who one day this week will decide whether half a million coal miners have presents for their kids on Christmas. A man with that kind of power deserves a vivid biography, which is just what Mr. Alinsky has given...
...Press, as to your responsibility because of your having hired Arthur Valpey as head coach, and on account of the dismal failure of the 1949 season. I confess that I agreed with your selection of Valpey last year, and believed that, given time, he would make his cycle offense work, and would build up a victorious team this year. Unfortunately, Valpey and his assistants not only did not live up to expectations, but produced the most inively and in forward passing--in the hisivell and in forward passing--in the history of Harvard football...