Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last few decades. The Divinity School, natural focus for religious thought, has fallen behind the other Graduate Schools, both in funds and leadership in its field. Religious activity in the entire University has suffered from the peculiar attitude of those students and professors whose notable tolerance toward diversity and dissent does not seem to extend to religion...
...Some Dissent...
Sensitive Dissenter. The age of sophistication raises an eyebrow at any such Hairbreadth Harry interpretation of history. But the U.S.'s awakening to the twin perils of Communist intentions and Communist scientific capabilities has been a hairbreadth affair. Like his late great friend, James Forrestal, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with saws) was one of a little band of men in Government who caught the threat of Communism when others heard only what they wanted to hear, who was motivated by a single-minded patriotism when patriotism was a drug on the one-world market. For years, Strauss was virtually unknown...
...generally middle-roaders; they favor sound money before tax cuts, a firm foreign policy, the return of power to the states-all pillars of the Eisenhower political philosophy. At first, Utah's J. Bracken Lee, a Taftman from way back, stood out like a sore thumb in his dissent. He denounced the Administration for going "down the same road we did with the New and Fair Deal." But at the convention's end, Lee had some afterthoughts. "I guess I'm so far out of step I'll have to review my thinking," he said...
Justice Douglas in his dissent admitted the Government's contention that it "would have been laughed out of court" if it had attempted to indict and try the Rosenbergs under the 1946 law. Douglas insisted, however, that the sentencing procedure of the 1946 law was the only one that could be applied to the case. He said: "Where two penal statutes may apply . . . the court has no choice but to impose the less harsh sentence . . . I know deep in my heart that I am right...