Word: currents
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...electricity, soap, refrigerators, sea food, written a book on propaganda, become a leading publicist. Three months ago, having concluded that democracy was in grave danger of going under by default, he decided to start a publicity campaign in its behalf. First broadside in his campaign was an article in Current History outlining a program for patriots. Last fortnight Mr. Bernays expanded the article into a book, Speak Up For Democracy (Viking...
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Last month Edna St. Vincent Millay was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She plans to spend the coming winter-as if in an attempt to holystone an overstuffed literary position-verse-pamphleteering about current events. The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come...
...speaker compared the current situation to Rome in the fifth century when culture and civilization were over thrown by the German invasion and driven to monasteries for 600 years. "Today there are no monasteries or any places where freedom from world events can exist," he commented. "Inefficiency saved civilization in the fifth century, but the efficient darkness' that might settle on the world of tomorrow world stand a much better chances of stamping...
Nearly one thousand members, more than a hundred over last year's record high, now drop in for an occasional meal, to browse in the largest collection of current magazines in New England, and to buy "Harvard Faculty Special Cigars" (15c a piece or 2 for 25c.) The Tomb of King Tut atmosphere is gone, and the chatter of false uppers is echoed by the clatter of mah jong tiles upstairs. There is activity at the Faculty Club-it has really become a social center for the Harvard professors and their families. For the first time since the University faculty...