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...Names of Ideas. "Liberals" and "conservatives," says Conant, have disappeared from the public scene; in fact, their very names have become meaningless. Their place has been taken by "reactionaries"-to give a name to those who would try to return to a condition approximating a prewar or "earlier status"-and by "radicals," who look forward to a radically different society. The former he calls-"with due apologies"-American reactionaries; the latter, European radicals, in that their ideas have been transplanted and are not indigenous. If the American future is to emerge from the conflict of only these two groups...
...word, "Swing" is meaningless and dead, God bless it. Jazz is much more onomatopoetic, anyway...
...word, "Swing" is meaningless and dead, God bless it. Jazz is much more onomatopoetic, anyway...
...cultivates an innocent soldier in the 95th Brigade. She easily learns, one night backstage, that his brigade is moving. That is only a beginning for German Intelligence Headquarters, which promptly assigns two men to the job of discovering the English plan and destination. From scraps of information, each almost meaningless in itself, these spies deduce the imminence of a commando raid and its objective, a submarine base on the French coast. Result: the English are trapped when they land, and almost totally wiped...
There is developing in the Class of '44 a strong desire to go to the movies on May 27. They find no intelligent reasons for the meaningless Commencement program as proposed by College officials...