Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objectives of the Velde and Jenner hearings is not to legislate but to root out dissent. The means used are to expose and humiliate nonconformists (a term explicitly including New Dealers), to compel confession, to create informers, to deprive the stiff-necked of their jobs, to terrorize the un subpoenaed members of the educational community, and to use the committee bearings as a sounding beard for the speeches of the Congressmen. These conclusions are supported by the frequent committee assertion that it possesses the information it seeks; by the committee practice of holding first an executive session and then...
...philosophies that are running wild in Europe, the man who represents us at that particular point where we confront the Communist world and the Socialist world, should be a man at that particular time who represents what is the prevailing philosophy of the American people with only a small dissent from it. I believe, and Mr. Conant does not answer that specification...
...serve a free nation at a time of partial mobilization, how to reconcile the essential tradition of dissent with the need for national unity in the face of danger-these are the major problems now facing this ancient community of scholars. These problems were undreamed of in 1933. They will be history two decades hence. What their solution may be is not for me to say. But I conclude this report with the strong conviction that short of a global war, the universities of this nation will be even more significant in 1973 than they are today. As vital centers...
...those pessimists who see either World War III or the defeat of the free nations as the only alternative outcomes of this conflict. I believe we can and will avoid an atomic global holocaust and given time, courage and patience, that the tradition of dissent and freedom will prove to be a better guide for a heavily industrialized society than totalitarian communism." ... The next ten years, if they bring neither World War II nor peace will be in a sense a continuation of that long period of trial for the university tradition which started when Hitler came to power...
...almost every proposal was a barb that brought squeals of dissent from some faction of the Assembly. But Antoine Pinay, who understands the common Frenchman, was reaching beyond the Assembly to the public. "The remedies are neither of the right nor of the left," he said. ". . . They are technical measures to be taken in a climate of political truce...