Word: alienating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...applied to the immigration authorities for voluntary removal proceedings. These were refused. Instead I was arrested and deportation proceedings were started against me. It goes without saying that I made no secret of my membership in the Communist Party and properly registered that fact as required by the Alien Registration...
...Alien Registration division of the Department of Justice is housed in an abandoned roller-skating rink...
...sure, a "germ of truth" in your leading editorial of September 25. But aside from the subtleties of its somewhat Hearstian hyperbole and misplaced emphasis, we feel that you wound up in severe contradiction. The bluntness of your concluding statement indicates a spirit of intolerance more alien to Harvard than that of which the defendant Admonition is accused. After all, gentleman, as you yourself implied, tolerance thrives in an atmosphere of criticism. Logically, the more critical an opposition becomes, the more tolerance should be extended. In reality, however, we find that exactly the opposite is true; and this fact seems...
...Harvard's greatest virtues, that of tolerance. Were it not for tolerance, their Admonition could harldly appear, much less be distributed at registration. There is undoubtedly a germ of truth in their accusations. They raise questions which need to be answered. But the spirit that animates their Admonition is alien to the spirit of tolerance. They advocate "accepting a dogma," and they practice what they preach. Harvard can get along without...
This is a lame excuse. Because the University has spread beyond the original acre and a quarter of cowyard procured by Governor Winthrop in 1637 for "a schoale or colledge" is no reason for adopting a name totally alien to our way of life. The ex-swampland which is Eliot House and the far-off wilderness which is Dunster are no more descended from the Romans' Campus Martius than are the peaceful preserves of Hollis and Stoughton. Both sides of Mass. Ave. are equally consecrated to intellectual grazing, luminating, and chewing...