Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What they will not do automatically is to maintain their educated attitude. They will be attracted by the lures of responsibility and definiteness, and they will be pushed by dogma and by disparagement of the indecisiveness -- "fuzzy-mindedness" -- with which college impregnated them. They will confront economic and political realities and close their senses to intellectual realities. They will preserve the symbols of education while destroying the essence, and then wonder why they cannot regain their former flexibility of thought...
...second case, the Court split right down the middle-4-4. The question was whether a Government employee has a right to confront the accuser in a loyalty hearing. The employee involved is 40-year-old Dorothy Bailey, an $8,000-a-year training officer in the United States Employment Service. She had been called Communist by undisclosed FBI informants. Since the Court couldn't reach an agreement, the lower court's verdict stood: that Miss Bailey had no right to face her accusers, had been properly fired...
...Harvard reluctant to confront this problem only because it is the last Ivy League college to have dealt successfully with such a matter...
...nobody could figure out why Bill Oatis had been made the victim. Like A.P.'s ex-Chiefs Richard Kasischke and Nathan Polowetzky, four other foreign reporters who had displeased the Czechs had been kicked out.But newsmen feared that the Czechs were preparing to bring Bill Oatis to trial, confront him with well-coached testimony by A.P.'s missing Czech employees...
...schoolboy enterprises, quit the University of Michigan after a year, and got himself a job on the Grand Rapids Herald. There he admired and studied the flamboyant oratorical style of Michigan Congressman William Alden Smith, who later bought the Herald. Vandenberg looked up one day from his typewriter to confront Alden Smith himself, who had just been elected a U.S. Senator. Smith announced to his young assistant: "My boy, you are now editor and publisher of this newspaper." "Van" was 22. Ten years later he was chairman of the Republican state convention, and master of an oratorical style worthy...