Word: arons
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Trustees of Sarah Lawrence College announced yesterday that they have accepted the resignation of Paul Aron, a permanent faculty member who refused to answer questions before the Jenner Committee...
...Aron, who taught a course entitled "Modern European History and the Soviet Union: A Historical and Institutional Survey," denied present membership in the Communist party but refused to testify about past associations on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment...
Pondering these matters, Raymond Aron, a former philosophy professor who has become one of France's leading highbrow political commentators, wrote in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro: "It was not necessary to have a trial in order to rouse the passions of antiSemitism, and as an instrument of government, a trial is singularly inefficient. Either the masses believe in the truth of the confessions-and in that case, what must they think of a party ruled by spies for so long?-or else they do not believe in it, but then the purpose attributed to the trials by Western...
These "ceremonies of self-accusation," Aron believes, can only be understood as "religious rites, rather than instruments of a rational method . . . The goal is to manifest the absolute nature of the supreme power by forcing millions of men to act and talk as if they took absurdities to be the truth ... All religions tend to impose upon the faithful the image of a world which is more true than the world of the senses. In Stalinism, that world is simply the interpretation which the party gives to events, an interpretation which is never definitely fixed. By confessing crimes which they...
Seventeen members of last year's first year class have accepted election to the Legal Aid Bureau. They are Harris Aron, Richard J. Barnet, Burton Bromson, William J. Chadwick, H. Stewart Dunn, Jr., Laurence S. Fordham, B. Harrison Frankel, Donald F. French, Lawrence R. Fullem, James T. Harris, Herbert D. Katz, Jonathan W. Lubell, Ramon L. Posel, Leo Silverstein, Richard W. Southgate, Julian L. Weber, George P. Zisdenstein...