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...obligations" were used by powerful segments of the public to deprive professors of their rights as citizens to speak forthrightly on all issues of public concern. As you correctly point out, everyone is cheated when the academic scholar takes a "safe" position in the face of strong pressures to conform...
...French bankers, but the Machines Bull method has definite advantages over the U.S. system. The U.S. method, which uses machines that are built by General Electric, National Cash Register and Burroughs Corp. as well as by IBM, electronically "reads" the numbers formed by magnetic ink on the check. To conform to the machines' peculiar reading habits, numbers must be printed in distorted characters that the human eye finds hard to read, and a smudged printing job can occasionally trick the machines...
...discussed and decried on all sides. Not only by angry, narrow sociologists (the late C. Wright Mills) or sociology's cheap popularizer (Vance Packard), or a Marxist culture quack (Erich Fromm). Speaking for more serious observers, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich fears that the pressures on the individual to conform and adjust may mean a drift toward collectivism and "authoritarian democracy," that man may become
...positions on smoking by women, birth control, easy divorce and labor unions were considered dangerously radical. Not now. What we suffer from today is not fear of ideas so much as a dearth of ideas." Disagreeing for its own sake, says Hook, is simply synthetic individualism. "A man can conform or not conform and still be an individual, as long as he uses independent judgment...
...arrived, he stirred up protests against the management of the University Library that culminated in a reorganization of Widener's system. At his irrepressible insistence, Harvard's diffuse studies of language were forged into a vigorous Department of Comparative Philology (the name became "Department of Linguistics" in 1951 to conform to current usage). His relentless emphasis on statistical method in the analysis of language has enabled this department to pioneer the new mathematical approach to language that now promises to bring order into the thoroughly confirmed field of linguistics. In addition, Whatmough's outspokenness, and his unimpeachable sense of style...