Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your attack is not one of reasoned argument, but of slander. It relies on the specific connotation of words rather than on facts. Granted that the May 2nd Movement has significant differences with SDS; yet Mr. Hessler characterizes what is an alternative approach to the same issues as being that of an "enemy" on the left. For this assertion he offers no justification...
...democratic" "people loving" "New" left and the cold calculating "Old" left is a cry that has been heard over and over again--most recently in an article appearing in an August issue of Mr. Buckley's National Review. Again Mr. Hessler adopts this a-priori assertion rather than an argument, that somehow providing an intellectual framework which we think clarifies action makes us "cold hearted...
Labor has never flagged in its determination to wipe 14(b) off the books and thus demolish the remaining state right-to-work laws. Its main argument is that 14(b) undermines union security by allowing nonunion workers to get a "free ride," but that argument is weakening in a day when labor itself enjoys greater acceptance, wealth and influence than ever before. Opponents of repeal argue that labor is so powerful, in any case, that union security hardly hinges on getting rid of 14(b). Most important, they insist that compulsory unionism goes against the ingrained American idea...
Maass dismissed this argument yesterday. "Tutors have to write recommendations anyway," he said. In his own experience of admitting graduate students, he continued, there never has been any trouble evaluating graduates of such colleges as Swarthmore and Oberlin "who have more ungraded courses on their transcripts than...
...Such an argument seems to us fatally defective for a variety reasons. The projected alternative would utterly destroy the opportunities for continuous confrontations between educational-relevant academic specialties, educational technology, professional practice, and the living problems of school and community. Such confrontations constitute the major channel through which university research and scholarship are linked with the practical enterprises of men. To destroy this channel would, no doubt, result in economies; it would also, however, surely prevent the university from a proper fulfillment of its responsibilities...