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Like many of his countrymen, the sere old peasant Pierre Talabard nursed a deep and lifelong distrust of all that exists beyond the confines of his 37-acre farm in the Allier, 200 miles south of Paris. He worked the rich soil on which he was born 63 years ago, hid what little money he possessed under his mattress, and left the farm only rarely, to stand in silence while his ruddy-cheeked wife Louise haggled with some neighbor over the sale of a family calf. Pierre's distrust of the outside world was in no way softened when...
This change in attitude, then, is the cause of the mounting restrictions upon academic freedom that the CRIMSON has chronicled for the last five years. Every timid administrator, every repressive rule, every indignantly patriotic a legislator feeds upon this distrust, and doing so, increases it vehemence. This year's novelty, the Congressional investigations, are but one, albeit the most gaudy manifestation of the scapegoat temper. You can call the Veldes and Jenners whatever you like: ambitious intolerants, "junketeering gumshoes," or violator of the spirit of due process of law. But the volume of their fan mail testifies to the faithfulness...
...defenses of education are hollow if they issue only from within university walls. In the long run, the only effective antidote to this distrust lies in elements of the public itself. Let respected citizens--trustees of universities and others whose loyalty is unquestioned--speak up in defense of universities. Let them cast their defense in the same terms of anti-Communism as the attacks have been. For the anti-Communist record of American universities is a long and proud one, needing of respected advocates and full publicity. If these tangible fruits of academic freedom become as much a part...
...Gaskell nonetheless worked under two handicaps: 1) a good many facts were not available to her, and 2) Charlotte's stiff-necked husband regarded her with wary distrust. Now another English novelist, named Margaret Lane, has hit upon the happy idea of interweaving long sections from Mrs. Gaskell's book with a narrative of her own which amplifies the earlier work. The result, says modest Author Lane, is "a sort of footnote to Mrs. Gaskell." It is one of the most readable, least academic footnotes ever dropped...
Being a war correspondent in the 1860s was in some ways tougher than being an infantryman. The foot soldier had to contend with nothing worse than mud, hardtack and the enemy's shot & shell. The war correspondent had to face all these things plus the wrath and distrust of such generals as William Tecumseh Sherman: "Dirty newspaper scribblers." Sherman called them. "They come into camp, poke about among the lazy shirks and pick up their camp rumors and publish them as facts ... I will treat them as spies, which in truth they...