Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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That and no more was his serious talk for the day, for "Mr." Russell, as he is addressed at Harvard, does not wish to dwell upon the subject of the war. And outside of the war, philosophy remained the only serious topic which could have been discussed. Philosophy was not discussed because Mr. Russell's philosophic realm is above the heads of the untutored proletariat...
...would be an interesting subject for a Ph.D. thesis--why professors go mad in war. Another thesis might be written on why students keep sane. In this war, at least, you boys have done just that. While the nation has been going crazy, you have remained calm. While the government has been driving us swiftly towards war, with professors laying on the lash, you have refused to be stampeded. Insistently you have maintained the dignity of education. The sanity of youth in this mad hour is perhaps the most encouraging sign of the times that this world...
...Minister growled: "Don't worry, they'll get it back." Later one of his colleagues said: "Churchill is a very full-blooded gentleman. Hitler has often mentioned the shortness of his patience, but Churchill's patience, as well as the British public's on this subject, now depends on a rapidly thinning thread...
...Hitler's chief lieutenants, and witnessed some of their works - the burning of the Reichstag, the June blood purge. Now & again he would send a profile of one of them to LIFE or The New Yorker. They were portraits sketched with careful artlessness against the background of the subject's weird biography and crimes...
...amazing talker, "King" Cole can discuss any subject like an expert although he has been to school only 19 months and 4 days in his life...