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Quotation by John Dos Passos
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bald-headed official in 1919, of the trilogy U.S.A. The Modern Library, Random House, Inc. (1937)Ben Evans in The Forty-Second Parallel, of the trilogy U.S.A. The Modern Library, Random House, Inc. (1937)Bill Cermak in The Big Money, of the trilogy U.S.A. The Modern Library, Random House, Inc. (1937)Bob Henslowe in Three Soldiers Houghton Mifflin Company (1964)Bum in Fortune Heights Three Plays, Harcourt, Brace and Company (1934)
And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing else. If we really wanted liberty of speech and thought, we could probably get it—Spain fifty years ago certainly had a longer tradition of despotism than has the United States—but do we want it? In these years we will see.
John Dos Passos (1896–1970), U.S. novelist, poet, playwright, painter. "Two University Professors," Broom (April 1922).
From a discussion of two Spanish intellectuals, Francisco Giner de los Rios and Miguél de Unamuno.
From a discussion of two Spanish intellectuals, Francisco Giner de los Rios and Miguél de Unamuno.
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