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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What about the economic and ideological arguments for intervention? Stripped to their bare essentials, they constitute straight imperialism, a twentieth century version of Manifest Destiny. The argument runs like this: If Germany wins, she will dominate huge areas of the world's best markets. Our foreign trade may make up only seven per cent of our national income, but it is a vital seven per cent. With our major customers forced to deal with Germany, we will have a catastrophic economic collapse, and in the ensuing dislocation and poverty, native fascism, encouraged by Hitler's success, will rise...
...dedicate a generation to the bloody task of invading Germany, would be dishonest. We must stop sending bombers and ships and guns to England unless we are prepared to follow them up with men. Now that there is something like a deadlock, President Roosevelt, if he means to make good his pledge to keep America out of war, should throw his weight in favor of the best possible peace with Germany--yes, even a peace leaving Hitler in control of the continent...
...defensive strength of the Harvard line is almost a cinch to make the Blues take to the air; there, they are right at home. Yale outpassed both Princeton and Cornell, as aerial-minded a pair of football teams as you will find anywhere in the country. Anderson may not be in top shape tomorrow, but Yale will receive top notch passing. Al Bartholemy will take care of the receiving angle...
Yale may hope to generate enough steam to make its running attack click, but that is only a forlorn hope. All that Coach Pond really wants is to flash an effective enough ground offense to keep Harvard worried. afraid to devote all its attention to Yale aerials...
...thing, its stories are mostly mythological or fanciful, handled as though in a complete vacuum, with not the slightest trace of anything to link them with real life. The music, too, is defective in that it is addicted to effect and picturization rather than spontaneous expression. But probably what makes old-style ballet so sterile is the fact that this is primarily not a dancing age: that is, it is an age in which one dances not to express emotion, but for recreation. The motions of the human limb per se do not have aesthetic meaning for us. So that...