Word: thoughtfullness
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Perhaps they were right. For by last week it was crystal clear that France's collapse had been preceded by a long, slow disintegration of the democratic and republican ideal, and in the process of disintegration was many a lesson for thoughtful U. S. citizens to ponder.
Last week, with totalitarianism in the ascendency throughout Europe and democracy fighting for its life, first stirrings of a counter-revolutionary movement to reassert democratic principles became apparent. Once a revolutionary idea of the first order, democracy, reasoned a small group of thoughtful Britons like Basil Kingsley Martin and Cyril...
"Watch your language," said his grandfather, who had graduated in 1940. "As you can see by the record of our class, we were busy listening to classical music, reading good books, and speculating on the value of a liberal education. We had no time for scrontching, as one of my...
Scalise, out in $40,000 bond, resigned his union presidency, wrote the executive board of the B. S. E. I. U.: "Dear brothers and sisters: . . . Under no circumstances will I permit my misfortune to affect those to whom I owe so much. . . ." Thoughtful Mr. Scalise was 24 hours late. The...
The note was signed "James B. Conant," and says Jones, "I can imagine a thoughtful gesture like this from the head of a university might mean more to a beaten football coach than all the five-year, $15,000 contracts in the world."