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...dainty vocabulary ("delightful, fascinating, exquisite"), her poetic prose: "In our ears the hurricane roars and silence knows us not. Out of confusion do we come and into confusion do we go. . . . Thus speaks the modern-he who has lost faith in the good, the beautiful, the true." But dissent remained private until, fortnight ago, Critic Jewett dismissed the paintings in the Art Institute's annual student show as of 'comic valentine persuasion...
...also express our dissent with his valuation of another teacher with whom we happen to be acquainted. We feel that Professor Chamberlain is not only a good, but an excellent teacher, who in 101 made a subject of much inherent difficulty consistently interesting, and sometimes intriguing. He is, as clearly, outstanding in fairness and friendliness. Mr. Bunde probably much underestimates the continuing value of Professor Chamberlin's work in Monopolistic Competition...
While a few M. P.s groaned "ohhh," there was no really important dissent. Every M. P. and most of his constituents knew that the reasons why Britons were going to have to dig down deeper into their pockets this year than last were to be found in Adolf Hitler's moves on the Continent. Best expression of the British man-in-the-street's reaction to the Hitler budget appeared on a newspaper handbill: "We Can Take...
...professors but should deliberately seek representation for unorthodox, minority views. "Harvard would not be true to its ideals or to its role if its appointment policy should exclude from its ranks every advocate of social change," the Committee says. Even stronger is this remark: "It is not enough that dissent from prevailing views should not count against a proposed appointee; it should count in his favor, if the dissent has intellectual weight, and is inadequately represented in the "Faculty...
...until he was an old man did Louis Brandeis see an era where many men in power shared his penetrations and fears. A "liberal" Justice before the New Deal crystallized division of social & political thought on the Supreme Court, in his old age Brandeis moved from dissent to assent. But he was no "New Deal Justice." The core of his social philosophy was a distrust of all arrangements, public or private, that too heavily taxed human fallibility. His grave objection to NRA was vigorously made known to all his colleagues. He resented humanly the attack on age which Franklin Roosevelt...