Word: argumentativeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This response encouraged prospective anti-Communist delegates. Moreover, the prospect of a free city as a forum for argument was attractive. The American methods for achieving the twin objective were fourfold: the efforts for free election with the U.S. delegation; personal contacts with other youth; outspoken participation in the seminars; and disruptions of Festival proceedings and otherwise...
...Massachusetts Communist Party and an "evangelical Baptist" who is executive director of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade debated the question, "Resolved: That Communists should be expelled from our university faculties." Speaking for the affirmative, Dr. Fred C. Schwarz, a surgeon and psychiatrist from Sydney, Australia, limited his argument to "members of the Communist Party" and contended they should be excluded from faculties both for "their relationship toward truth" and for the program which Party members are dedicated to carry...
Otis A. Hood, chairman of the Communist Party of Massachusetts, centered his opening argument around the necessity of providing the best possible university faculty. "Teachers may be competent in their field despite conflicting philosophies, religion, or economic situations," he emphosized. By excluding professors on the basis of their private philosophies, he said, "you are opening up a road where, instead of education, you have indoctrination." Citing Soviet scientific accomplishments, he mentioned that "a lot of Communists teach on faculties in the Soviet Union...
After Hood had devoted his rebuttal almost exclusively to considerations of alleged Communist brutality and to warnings of "McCarthyism" in this country, Schwarz accused his opponent of relying on "paranoic argument" and pointed out that Hood had dodged the question by not once mentioning the Communist Party in the United States and its aims...
...week's end, the argument that still raged on TV and on the hustings was whether Britain's prosperity was being properly distributed and who could best spread it and keep it going. As Britain's ruling party for the last eight years, the Tories could claim with some truth that they were the builders of Britain's current boom. But against that. Labor could appeal to the deep-rooted British feeling that no party should be kept in office too long. As election day approached, most of Britain's political experts cagily refused...