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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic conflicts at the Madison meeting. The first dealt with the issue of whether NSA should speak out on purely political questions. The Communist and left-wing delegates desperately needed the freedom to leave the realm of student problems in order to become an effective propaganda instrument. It is difficult to imagine today, but the threat of subversion posed by Communist Party and fellow-traveller members was quite real...
...foremost, Edel is a Jamesian--and he was a Jamesian before it was considered fashionable. Born in Pittsburgh, he was whisked off to Canada by his parents, and he completed the major part of his education there. After receiving an M.A. from McGill in 1928, he studied for the "difficult" degree at the Sorbonne, the State Doctorate. "There were two dissertions required," he explains, "and I gave mine on James." He also explored his interest in psychology, "becoming one of the Adler entourage...
...addition to the second volume of his biography of James, Professor Edel is assembling a four volume edition of James' letters. "It's very difficult reading them," Edel says. "I have, on occasion, spent half a morning with a magnifying glass looking at one world. I dictate the letter to a tape recorder--my one concession to mechanization--and a secretary types them up. It's difficult to select the important ones when you have ten thousand to choose from...
...addition to the moral issue of depriving needy students of loan money, said the Secretary, it is difficult to assess the political effect of a given institution withdrawing from the program, for the action "might affect some people in a manner not intended...
...Moral principles involved have been habitually bruised and disfigured by practical considerations," declared the Council, and "it is difficult to draw any hard and fast lines on moral grounds...