Word: unpopularity
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...picture business has almost succeeded in muzzling itself," he added, pointing out that true freedom must include the right to be wrong and the right to be unpopular...
Winston Churchill's Tories finally got their first major piece of legislation through the House of Commons: a bill to make the vast socialized-medicine program created by Labor pay more of its own way. To get the bill passed, the Tories had to resort to the unpopular "guillotine" to limit debate (TIME, May 5) and employ the budget-wise arguments of a pretty red-haired M.P., Miss Patricia Hornsby-Smith...
...wait till now to tell his story? Partly because of the "specious reasoning which has silenced many liberals," i.e., "You may hate the Communists, but you must not attack them or expose them, because if you do, you are attacking the right to hold unpopular opinions." Added Kazan: "I have thought soberly about this. It is, simply...
...good financial position despite the proposed $150 cut in educational aid in the pending G.I. Bills. John U. Monro '34, counsellor for Veterans and head of the Financial Aid Bureau, yesterday termed the two bills being considered by Congress very "generous," although he added that the cut will be unpopular in the face of rising costs...
Mark De Wolfe Howe '23, professor of Law, said yesterday that the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the Feinberg Law, which enables New York to remove Communists from public school jobs, could also give Massachusetts the power to silence unpopular opinion at Harvard...