Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are other balances, too, between young scientists and young English majors, between knowing how to read a book and how to act or write for a newspaper...
...Committee on Educational Policy has voted to adopt and submit to the Faculty a resolution calling for the University's withdrawal from the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act, a reliable source said yesterday...
...This Faculty urges the Corporation not to use loan funds under Title II of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 until the Affidavit of Disbelief in Section 1001 (f) is removed, and not to participate in any other Federal program in which Harvard must take administrative responsibility for similar affidavits...
...current protests against the loyalty oath and affidavit in the National Defense Education Act seem to assume that the issue has only one side--as if it were merely a contest between the enlightened and the ignorant, or a defense against perversity. But every social and political issue, just by its nature as social or political, has two sides. And since the understanding of any such issue requires a grasp of the essential validity of both sides, I should like to say a word for the neglected other side of the present issue...
...this situation, it is not unnatural that ordinary men should demand of intellectuals some symbol of commitment or loyalty. And it is precisely as symbol that they do demand it in the Act in question. It is an assurance they seek. They are not out to produce loyalty as an effect; for such an effect could not be achieved by any device, let alone this. Nor are they out to eliminate potential traitors, who might even welcome the opportunity to deceive. Loyalty oaths of this type are plainly not utilities; but they are not for that merely irrational...