Word: blanshard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bixler's trademark has been a constant stream of exciting outside lecturers. One week he mustered Educator Robert Hutchins, Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Industrialist Clarence Randall, Novelist Robert Penn Warren. Sometimes the results startled Bixler himself. "I am continually delighted by the student response," he once said. "There is this marvelous rising to quality. They know the genuine and the authentic. They are appealed to by the truly worthwhile...
...general blanket boycott of Roman Catholic candidates for public office seems unwise and unfair." So says Paul Blanshard, the lawyer-author who almost a decade ago-in his book American Freedom and Catholic Power-sweepingly attacked Catholic influence in the U.S. But to his plea for fairness. Blanshard added some major qualifications. Voters, he suggested (in a revision of his book to be published in March), should ask three questions of any Catholic candidate for the presidency...
Boston's diocesan Catholic paper The Pilot quickly came back at Blanshard: "The three questions are expressed in a manner that misrepresents authentic Catholic teaching on the subject in question. Catholics have no 'boycott' of public schools: the American Catholic hierarchy have never made an 'attack...
Supreme Court'; moreover, the church plainly cannot legislate for any but her own members...Paul Blanshard knows very well the proper answer to his own questions; he is not, however, looking for answers. He is instead attempting by this technique to cast a cloud of suspicion about any candidate who is a Catholic...
...TIME is aboard the Kennedy bandwagon. This free advertising for Senator John Kennedy is of great benefit to the Democrats and more important to the Catholic Church. If Kennedy is nominated by the "Damn-old-rats," I propose Paul Blanshard as Republican nominee...