Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traumatic experience from which American foreign policy has yet to recover. It is also true, however, that the State Department and the Administration have had far too little confidence in the ability of the American people to accept international measures that require emotional maturity. "Foreign policy by policy by opinion pool," an invention of the fifties, ignores the tremendous power and prestige a President and his Administration possesses to lead public opinion into accepting sound policy...
...Harvard CRIMSON of Saturday, October 31, there appeared a piece entitled, "The Vagabond: The From of Travel," describing a certain young man's efforts to obtain a scholarship grant to several foreign universities. We are of the opinion that this poor student's French section man, M. Plombier, was not the ame sympathique" as thought, but has thoroughly ruined the student's chances of receiving a grant from the French government by grossly misquoting the opening lines of Paul Verlaine's poem, "II Pleure Dans Mon Coeur." They should read...
Arguing over the NDEA oath, some members proposed a broad attack on both the loyalty oath and the disclaimer affidavit on the grounds of academic freedom, while others believed that the Council should deal with oath and affidavit separately. Several HFC members expressed the opinion that the organization should not concern itself with the NDEA...
...University of Illinois came to write a book on language behavior, wound up studying Hopi Indians at the edge of the Grand Canyon. But the usual effect is heady reappraisal. One famed fellow recalls that his pre-Casbah world had shriveled to six friends with the same opinion. At his first Casbah meal, he was plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram's summation. For him the Casbah's value lay as much...
This legal attitude, says the Anglican committee, is plainly wrong, and "public opinion has outstripped the law. With regard to attempted suicide, the law is not uniformly enforced, and it ought to be repealed or amended." The committee recommends that in addition to abolishing the felony of suicide, a new offense should be written into law "of aiding, abetting or instigating the suicide of another...