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...previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today. . . . Today, thank God, 130,000,000 Americans, in 48 States, have forgotten points of the compass in our national unity...
...will always come around to the right way of thinking when the pressure is put on. It will be for the right to assemble freely at Miss Deborah Dillingfeather's party to sample champagne and ski talk till four in the morning; for the privilege of a jury trial (thank God there's only one Dick Whitney and as for those Reds Sacco and Vanzetti, they should have been sent back to Russia in the first place); for a democracy extolled by sophists who call themselves teachers and hypocrites who call themselves representatives of the people...
...before long," he said, "and to a happier France! For I have just heard good news. I have just heard a German soldier grumbling: 'Du lieber Gott, I greatly fear that Roosevelt has been re-elected!' There is a high moral authority in question, you see, which (thank God!) is not powerless against our enemies. . . ." And we observed that the Germans sang less in Paris on that...
...know that your excellent Science section has often helped me in humanizing otherwise dry scientific facts. The swing tempo and pungent phrases I give to these lectures, I must confess, are frequently inspired by TIME. And so, in addition to expressing my present appreciation, I wish also to thank you for the inspirations and many, many interesting hours . . . since the "very beginning of TIME...
...Next day, after a repeat performance had drawn titters, hisses and shouts, Conductor Stokowski turned and gently chided the audience: "We don't ask you to like this music or to dislike it, but to give it a fair chance. I would like to thank those who received Schönberg with an open mind. They are in the majority. . . . The others, well, they can't help it. And perhaps," added Stokowski amid more titters, "they are right...