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Such a radical enlargement of the debating fold is ambitious and if it is to succeed, it will require not only the active interest of those 192 men who have already expressed a desire to talk, but also spectator-sympathy from all other students. When the curtain has risen, the play will "take" only if the audience acts, feels, and participates with the cast...
...soon as Wesley Sturges was mentioned for his new job. Gene Tunney declared he was "delighted," promised to lead his directors back into the D.S.I. fold...
Luce's reactionary attitude has placed him far to the right of the majority of his own party. And fearing that he will be deserted by Republicans who are trying to liberalize the G.O.P., Luce tried to seduce them back into the fold by raising the cry of "rubber stamp" against Eliot. But the Democrats who turn out to be rubber stamps are unknowns swept into office on a landslide, tyros who possess no knowledge about government, and who naturally therefore think that the best way to stay in office is to cling fast to the President's coat tails...
...Knubel cautioned United Lutherans against finding "more pleasure in disagreeing with other Lutherans than in agreeing with them." He urged them to "discern our three-fold responsibility today, for our inner unity, for unity with all Lutherans and for unity with all Christians." But unity, he declared, should be on a basis of "extremely studious discrimination." In the Lutheran basket, the chief egg upon which the United Lutheran Church looks with favor is the American Lutheran Church (some 500,000 members...
Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during his short lifetime of 35 years, more music than most great composers who lived twice as long...