Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the loyalty provision of the National Defense Education Act may appear harmless to many, the University's opposition to the loyalty oath involves much more than mere academic quibbling. The loyalty provisions now in the NDEA (Section 1001f) meet no clear and present security danger, but form instead a perilous restriction on academic autonomy and civil freedoms...
...cannot accept the idea that young men and women of college age should be singled out from all other citizens of the country to sign special affidavits and take oaths of allegiance, in order to benefit by the provisions of the Act. The lack of confidence this shows in young people of our country as well as in education generally is an insult. Finally, of course, the provisions of the disclaimer section of the Act will not be any way effective in discovering who is disloyal to our country. For these reasons Antoich ... has elected not to participate at present...
...action at Reed when the student council, the faculty and the Reed unit of the AAUP urged the president and trustees to reject participation in this program as long as the disclaimer was required for participation. The trustees meeting on January 31 gave authorization to the president to act as he saw fit in the matter. Consequently, President Sullivan wired the U.S. Commissioner of Education on February 2 that Reed would not participate in the program as long as the requirement of a negative affidavit was demanded...
...Act One, by Moss Hart. One of the most entertaining autobiographies of this or any other theatrical generation...
...turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without a word, thinking furiously, finally dashed off the drawings. Believing that "the Creator created paper for making architectural drawings," Aalto refuses to open mail, replies only to telegrams. Accepting a commission to act as a consultant to Helsinki's city planning commission, he insisted on a clause that the city fathers would not badger him with too many conferences. As an artist-architect, he controls the design to the smallest detail. As a man, he stays in tiptop shape, swimming in the icy Finnish...