Word: unpopularity
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...Carrol Newson, Associate Commissioner of Education in New York, said they are afraid of being labelled "pink" or "red" and, as a result, avoid not only communism, but all unpopular social or economic subjects...
...first Schuman cabinet, he devalued the franc over Sir Stafford Cripps's objections. Becoming Finance Minister again in 1951, he angered France (and helped topple the government of Rene Pleven) by introducing, and sticking to, an austerity budget plan. Commented Mayer: "A good Finance Minister is always unpopular." In debate he is austere and biting: admired, not adored. Foreign Policy: Within his own Radical Socialist Party, he opposed the position taken by Leaders Herriot and Daladier against the European Army. Is a close friend of Europe's No. 1 internationalist, Jean Monnet, who heads the six-nation Schuman...
...challenge accepted theories, he considered that same freedom an essential requirement in every field of knowledge. He was not only the leading defender of academic freedom, he was its personification. He would no more fire a good teacher than keep a poor one just because his political opinions were unpopular...
...what he has to say because I personally am convinced that the program espoused by Mr. Marshall is the best practical method for the achievement of a just and lasting peace. But what Mr. Wallace or any man who at the moment may be in a minority-- popular or unpopular--has to say is not so important as that his right to express his views is respected--and that the right of Harvard students to hear these divergent views is also respected." Even the stuffy Alumni Bulletin was moved to praise, saying "the special significance of Mr. Buck's address...
...coal shortage, which reported that the University would "heard" coal, when it simply other word would seem to f(t); and that over fascinating and broadening editorial column has to be discussed, agreed upon and written (there is the Boston Police strike, or Harold J. Laski's comments on unpopular subjects, or President Lowell's stalwart defense of his faculty, or the aftermaths of two great wars, or U.M.T., or how to run a good College and serve good meals--cheaper...