Word: candor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
close that there is little Communist activity today in educational institutions. But more important, the use of the Fifth Amendment is in our view entirely inconsistent with the candor to be expected of one devoted to the pursuit of truth. It is no excuse that the primary purpose of its use is to protect one's friends, or to express one's feelings that Congressional committees are by-passing the Constitutional safeguards of due process of law, or to avert a danger of prosecution for perjury in case one's testimony should later be contradicted by the false testimony...
...Your deep and pervasive influence has been exercised in quiet, depending upon lucidity of thought, candor of expression, wide knowledge, unflinching courage, and unflagging dedication to the academic enterprise...
...question still divides them: Should a teacher be fired for refusing to answer the questions of congressional investigators on the ground that his answers might incriminate him? Last week, after reviewing three such cases, Harvard answered no. Though it "deplored" invoking the Fifth Amendment as "entirely inconsistent with the candor to be expected of one devoted to the pursuit of truth," it did not consider it an automatic reason for dismissal. The three cases involved...
...Dulles delighted Premier Saeb Salaam of Lebanon, at his fifth stop, by his candor. Stoutly denying that U.S. Middle East policy is Zionist-dictated, Dulles said that the Jews as a whole had voted against him in the 1949 New York senatorial race (which he lost) and generally against Ike in 1952. Said Dulles: the U.S. wants to recapture the Arab world's friendship. Said the Premier: "You must show us acts, not words...
...without fear of prosecution for someone else's lies. But until committee procedure is improved to prevent this, the Corporation's policy subtly but actually coerces sub-poened Faculty members to risk perjury charges. It is not a question of the teacher's responsibility to speak frankly and with candor; rather it is a matter which goes beyond that responsibility, which saddles a teacher with an entirely unnecessary burden. Thus we cannot agree that either Kamin or Miss Markham deserved the reprimand given them. Kamin's Communist connections ceased before his University employment; Mrs. Markham never...