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...character The virtue in a free play of ideas is that it is creative, that it produces conceptions-technical or otherwise-that are new and valuable. But such conceptions, because new, are unconventional, and the mind able to discover them must have in its makeup at least some disregard for conventions and restrictions. Such disregard leads to peculiarities. Dr. Oppenheimer is a brilliant...
...Oppenheimer told Colonel Lansdale that Weinberg was a Communist Party member." Continued the commissioners: "The work of military intelligence, the FBI, and the AEC-all, at one time or another, have felt the effect of his falsehoods, evasions and misrepresentations. Dr. Oppenheimer's persistent and willful disregard for the obligations of security is evidenced by his obstruction of inquiries by security officials . . . Under oath he now admits that his refusal to name the individual [Chevalier] impeded the Government's investigation of espionage...
...action drew a sharp protest from the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which called upon the University to disregard "legally unsubstantiated political criticism... and consider only the individual's competent in his chosen field...
...find that Dr. Oppenheimer's continuing conduct and associations have reflected a serious disregard for the requirements of the security system...
...McCarthy's blatant disregard for fact, for details of courtesy and procedure, for authority, for his fellow committeemen, high-ranking Government officials and Army officers, let alone millions of televiewers, has been openly exposed to the American public better than ever before...