Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Seas to the cold-water jungles of Manhattan. In Daedalus, Big Game Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman breaks form by potshooting in his own backyard: the academic world. Samples of his mixed bag: ¶ Although some students maintain "a posture of contempt for business and a belief that, in contrast, teaching offers integrity, the life of the businessman and the life of the professor have become less and less distinct. The professor is no longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become a man of the world, perhaps traveling on an expense account, attending...
Members of the Ivy League and six other Eastern schools have recently registered opposition to the anti-subversion provision of the National Defense Education Act. The regulation in question would require all recipients of federal stipends under the act to disclaim in writing any belief in "subversive movements...
...second place, he continued, these pledges do little to deter real transgressors, offering them instead "a convenient cloak. Thirdly, "it is our conviction that belief cannot be coerced or compelled," he went...
Those who would eagerly label as "appeasement" every alternative to the militant obstinacy of brinksmanship must not share "Lippmann's belief in the ultimate ascendancy of reason...
...such questions here, preferring to draw their own conclusions. However, in the state colleges and small liberal arts colleges this form of investigation will increase if not stopped, and the University of California resolution has already been denounced as "subversive." It asks that faculty members refuse to reveal "belief, attitudes, activities, and associations of a student regarding religion, politics, and public affairs in general...