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...clear, however, that our supposed childishness is anything more than our response to a debased liberalism. Dean Ford finds the source of our "destructiveness" in the tradition of Voltaire's "ecrasez l'infame." I think he would be more accurate to recognize our debt to Rousseau's refusal to accept the false culture Voltaire proposed--through D'Alembert--to introduce into Geneva. For I detect in Dean Ford's article an unwillingness to consider seriously the possibility that much of bourgeois culture and much of the culture of the university is fraudulent. I find such a stance as blind...

Author: By Timothy D. Gould, | Title: An Open Letter to Liberals at Harvard From An Unrestful Radical | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...would stop the dangerous precedent set in last term's blood drive, with its sound truck solicitations. Must Winthrop House continue to exploit its unfortunate captive audience, unobtrusively studying in their rooms? What shall it profit Winthrop House if it break even and surrender to modern American advertising technique? Ecrasez-Pinfame!David A. Halperin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP EXCORIATED | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

...spoke up, the British press, for the most part, obscured the issue. So did the U.S. press, with few exceptions (see cuts). What was happening in India was being felt by the world. A cry for freedom, confused, tragic, but potentially as powerful as any since Voltaire's Ecrasez I'In fame (Crush the Infamous!) could not be put in a bottle and neatly labeled: treachery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Mess Accompli | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...time of their arrest, that the supposed "interference with an officer" was but a gentlemanly word-of-mouth remonstrance at what a bystander considered to be an unjust arrest--all this does not seem to have come to the ear of the indignant contributor. So he thunders, "Ecrasez l'infame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volleyed and Thundered | 2/19/1931 | See Source »

...person can compete, why not have a wise one? Why seriously handicap our winter sports and why force the athlete to take his exercise or his amusement in some form which may not be of benefit to him, and can be of no benefit to the University? "Ecrasez l'infame" and if we must have regulation, pray let it be wise. SENIOR

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/22/1909 | See Source »

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