Word: abolitionism
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Several years later the abolition mistakenly became considered by observers as an explicit move to help create football "sanity"--the sacred term which today describes the strait jacket of the Ivy League which the Policy Committee does not dare to loosen. If the committee decides to reinstate spring football, for...
By the slick technical standards of Hollywood, Operation Abolition is one of the least likely film hits since nickelodeons first started to charge a dime. The movie is an abrupt, badly edited 45-minute short. Its eye-jolting camera work is murky, its sound track raucous and shrill. But its...
Subpoenaed Film. Operation Abolition is a documentary report on student demonstrations against an Un-American Activities subcommittee hearing in San Francisco last May. Much of the footage concentrates on "Black Friday," May 13, when student-provoked city police turned fire hoses on the unruly, song-chanting crowd, dragged and pushed...
At a meeting prolonged for two hours by continual bickering over parliamentary procedure, the Harvard Young Democratic Club last night passed a resolution calling for abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and for legislative action to ensure fair treatment of witnesses called before all Congressional committees.
In a separate resolution, the HYDC stated its reasons for wishing to eliminate HUAC. It accused the Committee of "violating civil liberties" and placing "undue emphasis on defaming witnesses, and noted the film "Operation Abolition" as an example of HUAC's "propaganda."