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...book, Johnson has set out to build a basic framework of knowledge about the poems and the poet's development on which future scholars can depend. For every poem in his edition, Johnson has listed the principal text, the variants which Miss Dickinson is known to have written, and the changes introduced in the publication by different editors...
...brand of secularism which "is to be found within the churches themselves and is expressed through men and women who are sincerely devoted to religion . . . It is not secularism as such that is characteristic of the present religious situation in this country but secularism within a religious framework, the secularism of religious people...
...confidence-as in a time of despair-the central problems of U.S. whites and Negroes again blended into one: how to shape law, government, customs, practices, schools, factories, unions and farms in ways more consistent with man's nature and man's hopes. How, within the enduring framework of U.S. society, to let one change call forth another in some reasonably harmonious order. One of the most important changes on the U.S. scene in September 1955, as the nation's children trooped back to school, was the astounding progress of racial desegregation. In Kansas City...
Marshall knows that he and the South ern federal judges he respects are checked by the same steely framework of the Anglo-American legal tradition and, especially, the U.S. Constitution. He says: "The difference between the Constitution and the law is something a lot of people don't seem to appreciate. The law can fluctuate because of the changing whims of the people and their legislators. But the whole purpose of the Constitution is to serve as an instrument which cannot be changed overnight, which does not change when mores and customs change...
Sample lyrics: "You better feel that boogie beat, and get the lead out of your feet." Reuther still uses some of the old mechanical cliches of class-struggle philosophy. But he is too alert a man not to realize how much he has won for his followers within the framework of capitalism-and how much the picture holds within that same framework. In a recent speech Reuther said: "Movements release tremendous emotional forces, and they get into motion great dynamic qualities; then they tend to dissipate themselves. They sort of spend themselves. You always need to find...