Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faster these days than a mention of Jim Bell, TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief. Last week two big Philippine newspapers, the Manila Times and Bulletin, protested editorially against President Carlos Garcia's recent decision to ban Bell from the Philippines for reporting the corruption and increasing anti-Americanism of Garcia's government (TIME, Feb. 2). Said the Times: "The broad principles of press freedom are threatened by the President's attitude toward the Bell case." In almost 15 years as one of TIME'S top correspondents, Jim Bell has suffered just about every vicissitude...
...progressive" educator, for example, is a very bad man who is variously charged with being anti-intellectual, anti-social, and feeble minded. These progressives are termed "educationists," to distinguish them from more academic "educators." According to their critics, these "life-adjusters" are engaged in a conspiracy to exalt adolescent mediocrity, a subversive effort to remove all difficult and challenging courses from the curriculum...
...that only half the youngsters of college caliber are actually continuing their education. Yet in "the good old days," When his cherished academic curriculum was universal, far fewer talented young men reached college or even bothered to graduate from high school. Instead, they left school early and became the anti-intellectual voters who refuse to support school taxes, and the "practical" parents who steer bright children into auto mechanics...
Goheen shares to an extent Professor Smith's concern with anti-intellectualism in the clubs. The clubs, he says, "have not done anything to advance the intellectual life of the University." He "would welcome a larger intellectual concern" on their part, but does not feel that they have been a "drag on intellectual life...
...distinction is certainly marked during Bicker, and it probably holds a good deal of truth the rest of the year. The charge of "anti-intellectualism on the Street" is one that finds increasing currency at Princeton. Professor James Ward Smith of the Philosophy Department, in an article for The Daily Princetonian, stated the case for those who reject not the club system but what the club system now does...