Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ideas change with the years and this theater should not be a straightjacket, as so many Broadway houses are, but should allow future Harvard generations a certain freedom of choice in arrangement and staging...
...questions medieval debaters liked to argue was how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. The National Bureau of Standards does not allow itself to measure angels-but it has developed a micromicrocamera that can put a page of the Bible on a bit of photographic film much smaller than a pinhead. On this scale all the pages of a Bible would barely cover Lincoln's head on a if piece; the 27,357 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica could be reproduced on the back of a matchbook...
...able to go out and do something. If they contributed money, as they must have, the results were easily imaginable: instead of one grubby meal a day, some longshoreman would have three squares and a decent place to sleep. If public pressures were strong enough, management would have to allow the long-shoremen to unionize: the machinations of a ship company are far less complex than those of the federal government, the ruthlessness of Big Business is an issue far less hazy than disarmament...
...exists as much for the small and the new states as for the great and the old. He believes passionately that it is the UN's role to protect these states and maintain them in the teeth of the cold war. He will not quit, will not allow Khrushchev to hamstring the world body because he knows that the UN--his UN--requires an executive powerful enough to resist pressures from any bloc...
...kind of partisan literature, albeit better written, that can be found at any Kennedy headquarters. Unfortunately, the author's case against Nixon is stronger than his arguments for Kennedy, and Adlai's fans, although they will not vote for Nixon, are searching for reasons which, in good conscience, will allow them to support Kennedy...