Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christ or Death." But for all Father X's show of confidence, he worried about the problem of rallying and holding his forces. To him the enemy was less Communism than apathy. So he worried even about symbols. "When the Catholic Vanguardists were first formed, in 1919," he said, "they had a black flag embroidered with a golden cross and the motto 'Christ or Death.' It was an exciting flag. But the Fascists got a monopoly on the color black; so we have to fall back on white-the color of innocence but hardly inspiring. . . . Those cursed...
...racing most wears the airs of pageantry, the dogs are not merely yipping at the horse's heels but are far out front. There, a whopping $800 million a year is bet at 222 dog tracks, and the dogs are not only a national pastime but a national problem...
Objections. But more education for more people was only part of the problem. What kind of education should they get? "Too often," said the commission, "a man is 'educated' in that he has acquired competence in some particular occupation, yet falls short of that human wholeness and civic conscience which . . . citizenship requires. . . . The unity of liberal education has been splintered by overspecialization...
Acid Test. Now, 15 years after the Massie case, the nation is confronted again by the problem of Hawaii's races,* and in a way which will reawaken in the U.S. Senate something of the same uneasiness aroused by the Massie affair. Hawaii is knocking at the nation's door. After almost half a century of territorial status, she wants to be admitted as the 49th state. Her aggressive spokesman is Joseph Farrington, an influential publisher, son of an immigrant from the mainland, and Hawaii's Delegate to the U.S. Congress...
...panels of a series called Cuties because they were too leggy.) It was not much of an answer. The same sort of excuse could be made by every mass medium the Star-Times had indicted. But at least the Star-Times had cocked a snook at the problem-and then run like hell...