Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew the organizers' story: that the Armour officials. simply would not discuss anything with them; that the plants are fortified; that shipments of livestock to the yards will be stopped by the packers when the strike comes, to starve public opinion as well as the workers into submission. But as a Catholic prelate Bishop Sheil also believed in the sacredness of property rights, the wickedness of violence. He earnestly meant John Lewis and Organizer Bittner as well as Armour & Co. when he prayed God's guidance for "those upon whose shoulders are laid such heavy responsibilities, fraught with...
...cool retreat in Bavaria. Many of his political lieutenants were taking a rest. The German generals were said to be scattered in spas around the country. The Foreign Office at Berlin was almost deserted and hard-working Nazi editorial writers, finding little news to discuss, ridiculed the "democracy-manufactured" crisis over Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, and made fun of the "'war of nerves" which the French and British Governments had professed to believe was beginning. In fact, official Germany last week-end put on a complacent air of studied inactivity...
...pale, even beside Franklin Roosevelt's. Consciousness of his mastery over men gives him a dignity which might be ludicrous had he not also a dazzling smile and the ability to throw his head back, laugh uproariously, especially at embarrassing questions. When asked last week if he would discuss 1940 when he sees Franklin Roosevelt, he roared: "Why not? I always have...
...years Sigmund Freud has insisted on talking seriously about subjects that other people did not want to discuss. When he began lecturing on the sexual basis of neuroses, in Vienna in 1896, his worldly colleagues regarded him with the embarrassed annoyance reserved for those who hammer away at something people would rather not talk about, even if talking would teach them something. But for laymen, as Freud's theories spread, he emerged as the greatest killjoy in the history of human thought, transforming man's jokes and gentle pleasures into dreary and mysterious repressions, discovering hatreds...
Subsequent events make it relevant to refer, at the outset, to the methods by which the report was considered an adopted. . . . Group discussion of the report was actually confined to four informal meetings to each of which some portion of the instructing staff had been invited. Each of these meetings offered those in attendance their sole occasion to discuss all the various recommendations of the report. At each meeting queries and doubts on many points notably on the proposed abolition of the assistant professorship--seemed at least as evident as signs of approval. No specific motions, however, were entertained. Each...