Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fears of lessened academic freedom in the sciences seem unfounded. Government funds have supplemented Harvard funds, and the result has been a greater amount of high quality research without a loss of autonomy...
...crowded Winthrop House forum that lasted into the early morning hours, seven young North African leaders--of student, labor and "scouting" movements in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco--heard their spokesman, Ait Chaalal, President of the General Union of Algerian Moslem Students, put forth the cause of Algerian freedom and independence from France...
...facility of General de Gaulle's language," he insisted on the "integrity of the Algerian national territory." Although de Gaulle has made vague proposals for regional referenda in Algeria (concerning independence), Chaalal said that the Sahara oil resources belong to Algeria, and that the country must gain freedom "as a whole...
...Deceptive Gloss." From the often lackadaisical FCC came the strongest pronouncement to date. Said FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer: "A failure to distinguish between the freedom to express . . . ideas and the indiscriminate hawking of wares . . . has brought the advertising and broadcasting industries to the brink of strict Government controls...
...doctrine is in Christianity because its founder, no Stoic, put it there. But many of Russell's judgments might be echoed by the Christian faith, notably his disdain for the existentialism of France's Jean Paul Sartre. "Poetic vagueness and linguistic extravagance," sputters Russell, who sees freedom "in a knowledge of how nature works [whereas] the existentialist finds it in an indulgence of his moods." Russell may or may not be pleased to find the same thought expressed in the Bible...