Word: hobson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baxter kept talking, and in 1947 the peacetime Army began looking drabber. One day Kemper found himself being asked point-blank by Episcopal Bishop Henry W. Hobson, president of the board: "What do you think you could do for Andover if you were headmaster?" Said Kemper: "Isn't the question, Bishop, what I could get others to do with me to help the school?" Team Player Kemper...
Kenneth Tynan, the second most influential of British critics (after Harold Hobson), said in the Observer of the production that "instead of floating along with the right impertinent buoyancy it slumped like a leaden souffle.... Of high comic style, in which the play abounds, the production was devoid. Mr. Kopit deserves better than this...
...didn't impugn the motives of the right-wingers, I just called them idiots. Now, however, Alan E. Povey has informed us that freedom can best be defended by "tight security measures at home"; I guess that shows me. Christopher Z. Hobson...
...Hobson will look closely, he will find that the right wing is just as concerned about the possible erosion of civil freedoms and social ideals as he is. The are not interested in and do not support defense policies a the expense of liberty, social justice, and "whatever else is good and worth struggling for," as Mr. Hobson charges. They simply believe that these goals can be better achieved through an aggressive foreign policy abroad and tight security measures at home than through policies such as Mr. Hobson advocates...
...right wing at Harvard, and with minor exceptions across the country, is calm, intelligent, and manure, motivated by the deepest concern for the protection of our traditional values. Mr. Hobson's tactic of impugning the motives of those who disagree with him is, on the contrary unintelligent and immature. Political discussion is most worthwhile when it is conducted on rational grounds. Alan E. Povey...