Word: defections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many new interests loom up. Most of these will be sudden and out of your usual run, but need not be difficult or unpleasant, since you are usually an adaptable person. Your health may cause a little alarm, but this will be largely nervous in origin, not constitutional defect, so do not worry...
Formality v. Courtesy. Schlesinger agrees with Emerson that "defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions," and holds that today's abhorrence of snobbish formalities should not extend to contempt for simple courtesy. He finds promise of improved manners not so much in private homes as in public dealings: 1) in the businessman's realization that courtesy increases dividends; 2) in the wartime effort to make the G.I. respect the forms of citizens of other nations; 3) in the basically polite approach of the Good Neighbor Policy...
Hardheaded economists saw a good many flaws in the World Food Board Plan devised by Britain's Sir John Boyd Orr, director-general of U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. But the U.S.'s abrupt rejection of it last week illuminated a more important defect: the inability of U.S. Government departments to agree on policy...
...lead in defense. The Holy Cross line averages well over 200 pounds, and almost all of its operatives have had considerable experience. The Crusaders also boast a large array of backs, all of whom are good at single specialties, but not possessing too much versatility. It has been this defect--passers that cannot run, runners who cannot pass, and kickers who can neither run nor pass--that has been attributed as a major cause of the Purple's misfortunes this fall...
...sermon called "Communist Dynamics and the Hope of Peace." the onetime Methodist minister drew a badly needed, clear-cut line between liberalism and Communism. Said he: "Communism is a sincere but psychopathic attempt to adjust the life of man hurriedly to the world of the machine. . . . Its fatal defect is that wherever its principles are applied man loses and the machine wins. This is inherent in the nature of Communism because its faith is not in man but in social mechanics...