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...their pavilions on a marshy flat known as Runnymede. In one day's talk the points at issue were discussed, agreed on, signed. In the afternoon of June 15, 1215, King John, who could not write, set the royal seal four times to four copies of the Magna Charta...
Last spring Harvard's faculty hoped for reform in Dr. Conant's hiring & firing policies when he adopted a "Magna Charta" drafted by a faculty committee (TIME, June 5). But their hopes were quickly dashed, for at term's end the University fired ten popular assistant professors, including Ernest Simmons, President of Harvard's Teachers Union, and Critic Theodore Spencer. (Professor Spencer thereupon landed a lifetime appointment at Cambridge University, was hired back by Harvard as visiting lecturer for a year...
...affairs of men these storms of thought have been gathering for years. All the freedoms won through the generations since the Magna Charta of the year 1215, and the Bill of Rights (1689), and the Declaration of Independence (1776) are now being attacked by thoughts and ways that revert to the old fairy tales, when rulers could have a man's head chopped off at the whisper of treason to the state...
Typically English was Artist Munnings' liverish outburst last week in Suffolk, the county of his birth. At Bury St. Edmunds, 87 miles from London, where the Magna Charta was drawn up, Mayor Harry Isaac Jarman prepared to open a Munnings exhibit. Of the 61 canvases he had gathered, 15 were recent paintings of blue-blooded hunters and racers lent by the artist, seven were early studies of country horses lent by the city of Norwich. To the seven, Munnings made violent objection: six were "childish beginnings" that he had outgrown, one he had not even painted. He insisted that...
Britain's Magna Charta gave the power and prerogatives to the barons, who have held them ever since-the backdoor of the peerage-cum-charmed political circle always being carefully left wide open to "commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking...