Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving force are. It is all very well to say "national defense" or "freedom and democracy," but the point is that these ideas didn't make a force of unity before the war. What ground have we to think they will after? Freedom of speech is a deceptive concept, not positive at all. It can be used as easily to defend the lack of an ideal as to develop the form of a way of life. Unless it is used in the second sense, it is weakening and destructive, as we have seen...
...addition to being a stark military necessity, it's also a way forward to a great dignity and more secure status and recognition for working people. If this war means anything at all, it means broadening our concept of democracy to include men having an understanding and some control of their workaday lives...
...ancient philosophers and statesmen first evolved the concept of orderly freedom." Professor Finley stated, and it is the hope of the Department that this plan will help to broaden the student's outlook, as well as avoid the tendency toward totalitarianism, which stems from extreme specialization in education. The Humanistic fields have an obligation to help fulfill the traditions of a liberal education and these obligations should be fulfilled...
According to members of the Harvard unit, it is opposed to the democratic concept of education for an organization such as Phi Delta Kappa to restrict its membership to any one race. PDK is sufficiently influential in some parts of the country to control professorial appointments, and in many cases it is impossible for non-members of the society to acquire teaching positions...
Only some 500,000 of U.S. Jewry's 4,770,000 belong to Reform Judaism-but most well-known American Jews are among them. They look on Judaism as a religious rather than as a racial concept. Few of them call their house of prayer a synagogue or go to worship there on Saturday. Instead, they call the synagogue a "temple," worship on Sunday like Christians, ignore the Mosaic dietary laws...