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Starting in the summer of 1952, and working steadily and secretly behind what the Yale Daily News termed "a ridiculous cloak and dagger security curtain," Yale's president, A. Whitney Griswold and a seven-man committee have completed a sixty-page report which attacks both the curriculum and the undergraduate, and then proposes a new program of General Education to correct Yale's weaknesses...
Although the Second World war made "walls with ears" a national cliche, it also cut the supply of recording disks, and the cloak-and-dagger atmosphere left the Clinic for good. The observation roof was wall-papered and the audio-lamp disappeared. Only the dining-room recorder, now covered with dust remains...
...State Federation of Women's Clubs and the New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers. Protestant pulpits resounded with anti-bingo sermons. Said Methodist Bishop Fred P. Corson: "Gambling is a destructive force in personal and community life. It is just as evil . . . when disguised under the cloak of charity or religion as when it appears openly in the form of slot machines and numbers rackets...
...beyond his power to modify or define. If man has the power to define what his standards are, then they almost inevitably become what he wills them to be. Thus through man's infinite capacity for rationalization, many lies may seem to be truth, deceit may wear the cloak of honor, oppression may be practiced in the name of justice. This, to me, is the great ethical error of materialism, humanism and all other systems of philosophy which do not recognize the independent existence of absolute moral and spiritual values...
Instead, he answered some questions, refused others, and left the impression that he was a junior cloak and dagger man, fighting the committee because of some juvenile idea that he would be acclaimed a liberal here. In doing so, he ignored certain responsibilities to the Law School and the University, showing himself as one who could not be trusted. With the avowed policy of the American Bar Association, we can sea no reason why the Law Review should jeopardize its members' professional possibilities for the sake of an individual who has erred so greatly in his judgment. Neither...