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...refusal of human beings to "stay put" in the comfortably derogatory classifications which their critics have invented for the sake of bolstering the critics own self-confidence. Competence, unfortunately for Mr. Weren, is where you find it, and you have to keep looking. Too many are led astray by those neat maps of the universe provided by a priori assumption. Twelve more years may teach Mr. Weren that however he may choose to classify people they are not likely to share his beautiful dream that they, and not he, are asleep...
...Other educational leaders, some at Harvard, have spoken in this same way. But the overwhelming majority of professors at Harvard and elsewhere, have gone all but crazy. Those whom we should trust the most as servants of truth are the ones who are leading us most widely and wildly astray. What a spectacle...
...these men, says the Progressive, in sobering tones. You may believe at first that they are guiding you along the true path of knowledge. But unless you are very careful, you will realize only too late that they have cleverly contrived, out of sheer black malice, to lead you astray: Beware. For a Freshman who has just got back his first English A theme, covered with comments more pungent than insidious; and pointed up with a large red "D," this admonition can have little meaning. For a man fresh out of a midwestern high school, listening to Professor Demos...
After the news of Hess's landing, Berlin's next step was to say Hess had turned peace crank, had been led astray by soothsayers and astrologers. Promptly closed was every spook shop and fortune teller in Germany, not excepting a headline mind reading act in a Berlin music hall. In a special meeting, Hitler rallied the biggest shots of Nazi Germany, who obligingly "gave . . . an impressive demonstration of a determined will for victory." To assure the people that all was well, Nazi ward-heelers started a house-to-house canvass...
...exigencies of journalism may have led the Crimson somewhat astray on its story about Trotsky's archives. The truth is much less melodramatic...