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Handlin, who agreed with Ciardi on the danger of orthodoxy in education, disagreed with his reason for this danger. He said, "As liberals, our role is primarily defensive. But we have not been clear as to what we ourselves have been unclear about and have been struggling...
...speeches punctuated with invective, references to Lil Abner, and boos and cheers from the audience, John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, tangled with the "treason-beat" New York reporter and writer, Victor Laski, at last night's Law Forum on "Limitations on Free Expression...
...Ciardi, who opened the forum at the New Lecture Hall, said that present limitations on free expression are forcing orthodoxy to be established in the schools. This is making students "too damn dull and respectable," he commented...
...Ciardi stated that progress in art, scholarship, and other forms of free expression is dulled when a spirit of orthodoxy is prevalent...
...present investigations of faculty professors. He said, "I seriously doubt that committee members are wholly disinterested patriots. Their desire to cash in with television and publicity makes them suspect." Ciardi said that if he were questioned, he would reply, "I refuse to answer, not on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment, but because I believe this committee is contemptible, and I am bound as a citizen of the United States to hold it in contempt...