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There is a less frenetic opposition to federal controls: some educators fear that administrative standards will be the opening wedge in a campaign of standardization all along the line that will gradually stiffen U. S. education into one unshakable pattern. They pass around the story of the French Minister of Education who proudly declared that at any given moment he could tell what page of what text-book each child in the country was reading. American education needs to be supported by national funds, these educators admit, but diversity and the chance to experiment are too important to lose...
...adjust itself to a boom which had changed its character. It was no longer chiefly based on scarcities and stored-up war demand, but on full employment, and replacement demand, shored up by enormous federal spending. Businessmen would have to cut their prices to a new pattern of shrinking markets in many lines; labor would have to recognize that decreasing employment would bring a sort of buyers' market there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop in the cost of living. By reasonableness on both sides, there...
Many a voter wondered too. Even in the flush of post-election emotion, few could mistake Truman for an inspiring leader in the pattern of Churchill or Roosevelt. Many remembered the bewildered, fumbling Harry Truman groping through the tumbling squalls of the postwar economy, often seeming to dismiss his problems as jauntily as the captain of the Walloping Windowblind. But not even his opponents doubted his essential integrity and simplicity and, in the calmer waters of 1948, that seemed enough. Said a young businessman: "He'll do what he thinks he ought to. Up home in North Carolina...
...prison bars, the caged human figures. Casually it takes in such alarming details as a woman giggling to herself, another sitting on the floor. Later, it surveys the rows of beds in the dormitory at night, when Virginia first realizes where she is, while the soundtrack weaves a chilling pattern of the weeping, moaning and plaintive singing that come from the separate nightmares...
...Planning Committee have conceived of peculiar methods in the past, and Bingham is a member of the Planning Committee, and the test-balloon idea is therefore not extraordinary. But no matter which way it finally comes out, this sub-quarrel will only add one more lie to the pattern of underhandedness, bitterness, and dangerous, and dangerous naivete that has characterized the entire affair, and the characterizes too much of politics as practiced by Harvard undergraduates...