Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be easy to dismiss i.e. as a product of sexual repression or sheer mysticism, simply by mentioning its many absurd assertions: "At Harvard, we have absolutely no emotional life.... Harvard does not cultivate a respect for the intellect... the students who are more or less artists or intellectuals and are busy thinking and painting are all stimied." (sic) But in the midst of the inanity and polemic, i.e. expresses forcefully generally felt undergraduate fears that creeping prestige-consciousness threatens their intellectual integrity. Although i.e.'s attempt to prove that the University is somehow responsible for human vanity seems unfounded...
Furor at Home. Last week the fate of Frogman Lionel ("Buster") Crabb, wartime hero in the Royal Navy, was giving Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden one of the most awkward times of his political career. In the House of Commons, Sir Anthony tried to dismiss the whole matter: "It would not be in the public interest to disclose the circumstances in which Commander Crabb is presumed to have met his death." But then he added mysteriously: "I think it necessary, in the special circumstances of this case, to make it clear that what was done was done without the authority...
...Soviet leaders are losing friends and influencing nobody. The whole thing has its funny side. But it is too important to dismiss with a smile. Anyone who really knows the British could have foretold some surprises...
Under this rule, said the committee, a school would not even have the right to fire a Communist Party member, unless the teacher is proved unfit as a teacher. Nor should it have the right to dismiss a man solely because he pleads the Fifth Amendment. In such cases the school may have the duty to investigate further. But the burden of proof should lie with the institution, and no final decision should be made until the accused professor has been judged by his academic peers. Though it may be legally indefensible, added the committee, a refusal to answer questions...
...precisely his restraint and respectability that make Eastland a far more dismaying phenomenon than Vardaman and his ilk ever were. When an old-style Southern politician made an unvarnished appeal to racial hatred, it was possible to dismiss it as a coldly cynical maneuver to get the poor white vote; it was obvious that the decent, educated white people of the South did not feel that way. But when James Eastland soberly proclaims his undying opposition to integrated schools, he is obviously speaking from a profound conviction, and his voice is the authentic voice of most of the South...