Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong feeling that the Committee's policy of interrogating persons on their private beliefs and associations is utterly inconsistent with American traditions of freedom. There may be some special circumstances, for example in relation to government employment with access to secret information, in which such inquiry, with the results kept closely confidential, can be justified. There can, however, be no justification for singling out private citizens for such inquiry, and giving publicity to the results...
...pages, Edgar Johnson's critical biography of Charles Dickens is the definitive treatment of Dickens only in the sense that a vacuum cleaner is the definitive treatment for a rug. Seven years of earnest scholarship together with access to much fresh Dickens material have enabled Biographer Johnson to pick up every fact worth knowing about his hero. As biography, his book is complete, conscientious and fleetingly dramatic. As criticism, it is a hothanded fan letter posing as a balance sheet. Constant prose transfusions from Dickens keep the book alive, and for the rest, the author relies on a quality...
...Corbett and her excellent staff of 15 nurses are making the best of a bad thing. Besides its inconvenient location, the old building has not enough facilities for contagious patients. The private rooms have no running water, and there is, only one toilet a floor. The staff has no access to student's previous records which are in the Hygiene building two miles away, and doors and elevators that won't admit beds are becoming a nuisance...
...remarks at the opening of Lamont Library he stressed this free access theme: "Harvard was synonymous with free minds openly browsing through all the orthodoxies and heresies of history, through good book, bad books, and mediocre books. Harvard deserved more than Virginia, the great inscription of Thomas Jefferson, 'Here we fear no heresy where truth is free to combat error.'" But he noted also contrary forces, "a clever subtile devil, appearing in devious ways." Sometimes his attack has been frontal, as "when a century age there was a restriction on anti-slavery discussion. . .or when he appeared in the guise...
Considering the rest of the radio menu, this latest movement is like adding injury to insult. The networks, after all, are given access to public airwaves for their own financial gain. This grant implies some responsibility for balancing the political elements which they allow to buy time on the air. Even the lack of a willing sponsor is no excuse for not doing this, since the networks are quite capable of originating their own programs when necessary. But if commercial radio continues to evade such responsibilities, the price of its existence may soon be too high...