Word: questions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours of debate did not satisfy it, and it adjourned for a week. Usually the Faculty meets only for formal purposes and then delegates its work to the smaller Faculty Council. But on Tuesday the full Faculty (consisting of all ranks over and including Faculty Instructors) was discussing a question which must have seemed more pressing than any that has come up in President Conant's six-year tenancy of University Hall...
Although this resurrection of the dying moments of the Dual Monarchy makes for vivid reading, one wishes that Miss Harding had elaborated on the wider significance of events which led directly to profound changes in the European map. In an almost offhand manner, the author brings up the question of the rights of national minorities, like the Croats and Ruthenians. With only superficial analysis, she baldly asserts that the principle of national self-determination cannot be realized in Central Europe. There must be at all times a Great Power to rule this heterogeneous mass of peoples who, if allowed...
...effect of the war on Asia, although not clear, is bound to be tremendous," he began. "Already, Ghandi, while offering support to Britain, has raised the question of Britain's war aims and the question of the fate of India and her possible independence after...
Meanwhile Rex Ingram turned down many a good job in Hollywood, determined not to go back until he finds a story "I know, understand, believe in." His own novel is out of the question, he declares: the censors would make mincemeat of it. Evidently influenced by Hemingway (Rex Ingram's favorite author), Mars in the House of Death traces the short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having...
...Greene, to put the matter unoriginally, is an idealist in this question of war. He accepts the protestations of France and Britain that they are waging a crusade in complete good faith. He is convinced that this is essentially--nay entirely--a conflict between naked power and reason in international affairs, between the suppression of human rights and liberties and the glorification of the same...