Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Primary argument of the Worcester debaters was their contention that the present two-party system has broken down and no longer affords the liberal voter any real choice in the elections. A labor party would, they maintained, be the only agency that could effect the passage of progressive legislation...
Winning an Argument. The shock of the Socialist-Communist pact was aug mented by surprise. Since last spring, when left-wing Socialist Pietro Nenni and Communist leader Palmiro ("Hercules") Togliatti put their heads together in a vain attempt at merger, the political tides in Italy and the rest of Europe had been running against the Communists. Embarrassed by Russia's insistence that Italy must give up Trieste, Togliatti had received the indignant resignations of 8,000 Roman Communists in a single day. The Socialists had appointed Sandro Pertini to conduct their negotiations with the Reds, and since Pertini...
Morrison described the Fabian way: "Discussion, argument, reading, research, often confined to small groups of people, are the sound foundations for a nation's advancing freedom and social responsibility. Attlee gave an account of the Society's history that might have been brighter. He omitted, for instance, Shaw's account of the dear, dead days when he, H. G. Wells, Beatrice and Sidney Webb and other veterans lived in an "eternal political shop . . . mornings of dogged writing, all in our separate rooms; our ravenous plain meals . . . Beatrice throwing away her pen and hurling herself on her husband...
Diamond v. Ruby. The most provocative argument in opera today is who is the greater-Flagstad or Traubel. If Flagstad were to return (as now seems unlikely) who would have the top roles? For the 1946-47 season the answer is plain: Traubel is signed up. There is no doubt that the Met finds it easier to work with the untemperamental Traubel-and the Met is always willing to let well enough alone. Because European opera houses have been shattered and their companies scattered, the Met has become, by a survival of the luckiest, perhaps the leading opera house...
James B. Field '47 and Elton C. McNeil '49 defended a losing negative argument before an audience of 40 people in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, losing to a Canadian team of Sherwin Raymond and James Hemmins. Raymond was named best speaker of the evening by the judging panel, which included Saul Wallen, former chairman of the New England War Labor Board, David Truman, visiting lecturer in Government, and Robert Watson of the staff of the Graduate School of Engineering...