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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...races for the U.S. Senate, early returns will be significant only if considered in the right context. Items...
...graves for 2,500,000 whites. Though the Negroes work, they may not vote; though they pay taxes, there are few schools for their children. They may live only in carefully, often brutally policed squalor. This is God's will, claimed Daniel Malan, as he quoted (out of context) from the Old Testament: "Let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water...
...developing Webb that holds one's interest. Watching him learn to set his sneering lip just so, arch a well-trimmed eye-brow at a studied angle, and tinge his voice with the exact tone of what passes for atrophying scorn, provides an interesting two hours. In the context of a middling good detective story, the early Webb is irrestible...
...jibes at the prospects of a maidless College.--The CRIMSON was at once called Fascist and Communist for its stand on one particular issue. Letters should be under 400 words, and the editors reserve the right to abridge them if space limitation makes this necessary. No changes in context will be made, however. All letters must be singed, but names can be withheld by request...
Coming at the end of a lifetime's work that ranges over all recorded history in dazzling detail, and pronounced at a time of unprecedented crisis, these words may sound like a thundering anticlimax. Yet the mind that formed them, the context in which they are set down and the view of man that lies behind them, all compel utmost attention from Americans, who themselves are now haunted by the feeling that they are precariously hanging on above a menacing chasm of history...