Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's frontiers are in Asia. We cannot abandon Asia to Communism any more than we can abandon Europe to Communism. As in the war, so in the peace we must fight on both fronts. In spite of what has happened in China we still have a chance here. We have the unique opportunity of making the Japanese people into a good society. They have an old adage here-as Japan goes, so goes Asia. The history of the next 100 years, perhaps the next 1,000 years, may be decided here in the East...
Proclaimed Finance Minister Hayato Ikeda, one of Japan's few competent cabinet members, who had done the spadework with Joe Dodge: "Real political freedom cannot be hoped for where there is no economic independence. If we Japanese prefer to lie idly dependent on the help of foreign countries, we would be disgracing both our forefathers and our children...
Like many a Harvard tradition, Class Day's origin cannot be specifically dated, and its various features grew into fashion bit by bit over a considerable period of time. "We suspect that the origin of the literary exercises on Class Day," James Russell Lowell wrote in 1874, "may be traced by no doubtful inference to an attempt of the Overseers, beginning in 1754 and renewed at intervals for some ten years, to improve the elocution of the students by requiring the public recitation of dialogues translated out of Latin into English." Lowell was, however, evidently unfamiliar with the diary...
...disappointing performance in "The Tempest" was Thayer David's Prospero, which came as a surprise after his previous work. The fault may be the director's, (or my own, since it is a matter of interpretation rather than ability) but I cannot imagine Prospero as the dry, weary, manipulator that Mr. David makes him. Why shouldn't God, or Shakespeare, or whoever Prospero is, have as much fun as anybody? Since he is responsible for all the goings-on which produce such gaiety, why should he not be amused? Even Buddha smiles. Mr. David's magic-man is stern...
...Boston paper led its story with, "Exciting new history is being written with blood," and went on to say, "Just what the isolation of living white blood cells will turn up, scientists cannot predict at this time. But. . . one important use may be the introduction of living white blood cells into the bloodstream f a patient under treatment for cancer...