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Having respect for TIME heightens the shock at your McCarthy piece, which, for filthy innuendo, outdoes anything McCarthy's worst enemies have ever accused him of doing . . . You are aware that the Communists' No. 1 target in U.S. is to destroy McCarthy. Perhaps a more clever job than you realize has been done to poison your mind against a man who, if not the perfect champion, fights effectively for a cause that we should all be interested in. This newspaper has strong editorial opinions but confines them to the editorial page and doesn't prostitute its news...
This cautious desire to be "well fixed" and a little more has many causes: the war; the lingering shock of the Big Depression (which this younger generation felt or heard about in its childhood); and the hard-to-kill belief (still expounded in some college economics courses) that the frontiers of the U.S. economy have been reached...
...alarm clock seems to be ticking away at the back of their minds; it goes off sooner or later, and sends them back to school, to work, or to war. They are almost discreet about their indiscretions, largely because (unlike their parents) they no longer want or need to shock their elders. The generation has "won its latchkey." It sees no point or fun in yelling for freedom to do as it pleases, because generally no one keeps it from doing as it pleases. It is not rebellious-either against convention or instruction, the state or fate...
College claustrophobes got the shock of their lives last night. Upwards of 1,200 loyally boisterous. Open and Closed rooters packed Holyoke Street in front of the Blockhouse for the successive rallies of their alma maters...
...blackest day in the history of the college," and many of his colleagues agreed with him. The College of William and Mary, not yet recovered from its athletic scandal and the resignation of President John Edwin Pomfret (TIME, Sept. 24), was once again in a state of shock. The center of the storm this time: the man who had been chosen as President Pomfret's successor...