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...class before and would do so again. When alumni were calling for the resignation of Felix Frankfurter, who aided the defense during the Sacco case, Lowell would have nothing of it. He supported the League of Nations when that was an unpopular cause and refused to fire Harold Laski when alumni pressure for the socialist's dismissal was intense...
...time roughly between When the Kissing Had to Stop and this side of 1984. Only the lewdies (the old) read any more and "newspapers not being read much neither." There is universal social security. The millicents (police) are everywhere. Russia is the dominant influence (the pop singers are Berti Laski and Johnny Zhivago), and it is suggested that Alex and his dreadful droogs (gangmates) get their Russian-based special vocabulary by subliminal propaganda. Life for Alex is real horrorshow (just fine-from the Russian kho-rosho?). Alex wears skin-tight black tights, padded pletchoes (shoulders) and real horrorshow boots...
Developing his concept in contrast to that of a highly centralized state, he remarked that the Depression and World War II had engendered the argument that "this bloating of central government" was inevitable in America. Not so, Rockefeller asserted: despite Harold Laski's predictions of 1939, the federal idea is not obsolete, nor should...
...became a leader of the Indian boy scout movement, in 1924 went to England for six months as secretary to one of Mrs. Besant's assistants. He stayed for 28 years. Says Menon: "I survived England somehow or other." He studied under Socialist Harold Laski at the London School of Economics, was later admitted to the bar. But Menon found his real calling when he joined the India League, an unofficial propaganda organization aimed at converting the British to Indian home rule...
...secretary of the league, Menon gave soapbox speeches, got sympathetic left-wing intellectuals like Laski, Bertrand Russell and Stafford Cripps to preach the gospel of Indian independence. Menon lived in a dreary bed-sitter in Camden Town in London's working-class borough of St. Pancras, eked out a living by writing occasional legal briefs, often lacked enough money for a meal. He became involved in Labor Party politics, served as a member of the St. Pancras borough council, where he is still remembered as "the best library chairman we ever had." For his work, he became...