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...cannot dismiss Amenhotep. He was the first monotheist among the Egyptians. He was a great genius, very human, very individual. That he scratched out his father's name is not the main thing at all." Whereupon Freud fainted dead away. Jung's explanation: "Indirectly, he was continuing his reproach that I had scratched out the father's name-that is, his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Old Wise Man | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Five State bills which would compel private colleges to dismiss Communists from their teaching staffs may be referred to the Commission on Communism and never reach a floor vote, according to Sen. George J. Evans (R) of New Bedford, chairman of the Joint Committee on Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Red Teacher Bills May Never Reach Floor | 2/10/1955 | See Source »

...alternative to charter revocation, Iannello plans to introduce an amendment to his bill which would provide for the cancellation of all tax exemption privileges of a college that did not dismiss Communist teachers. "We definitely want to get Harvard," he said yesterday. "People like Furry are real security risks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Considers Bills to Oust All Red Teachers | 2/9/1955 | See Source »

Western diplomats had been inclined to dismiss talk of an Afro-Asian conference as little more than a frisky showing-off by the young governments of the world's recently freed colonial areas. But when they read the Prime Ministers' statement of principles, the agenda and the guest list, they began to worry. Still more mistrustful of a colonialism that is past than of a growing threat of Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRO-ASIA: Half of Humanity | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Both Berlin and Bartlett argued for the sixty-day period "in view of the important constitutional questions involved." Berlin added that he wished to leave himself free to present a motion to dismiss the indictments entirely. He had stated earlier that he might question not only the McCarthy subcommittee's right to question Furry about his associates, but also its right to investigate operations outside the government...

Author: By Victor K. Mcelheny, | Title: Furry and Kamin Deny Guilt at Court Hearing | 1/4/1955 | See Source »

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