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...Lubells are communists we do not sympathize with their politics. But we do affirm their right to be unpopular, even to be wrong, and we will treat them as human beings as long as we admit ourselves to be fallible and imperfect. Carl Sapers '53 Robert Layzer '53 Anthony Bellenson...
...Paso, Scriptwriter Michael (Five Fingers) Wilson, who refused to affirm or deny Communist Party membership before a House committee in 1951, pooh-poohed the charges of subversion. Said he: "This picture is pro-American in the deepest sense. It is a picture that depicts honest working men & women of our country in a light most Hollywood films have ignored ... The film does not inflame racial hatreds. On the contrary, it stresses brotherhood and unity ..." But by that time, few people seemed concerned with what the picture itself...
...petition reads: "We, the undersigned, hereby affirm our interest and support of a proposal for selected Radcliffe students to represent Harvard as official cheerleaders at freshman and varsity basketball games only. This petition will be presented to the Student Council...
...Hopeful West Indians also believe that a larger economic unit is more likely to attract the outside capital so badly needed for further development. But for the region's politically dominant Afro-West Indians, the projected union probably represents less an effort to achieve economic betterment than to affirm a sort of nationhood that will erase the indignity of past slavery...
Tillich resents the attempt of the Catholic philosophers to prove the existence of God by rational means. "It is blasphemy," he says, "to affirm the existence of God. The answer cannot come out of the question." His reasoning: since God is "The Unconditional," and utterly outside human experience, it is impossible to describe Him or to attempt proofs of His existence in limited human terms. Along with Theologian Earth, Tillich has rejected Aquinas' "two-story house" of supranatural and natural theology ("There is no natural theology"). His substitute is a roomy one-story structure open at all times...