Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That, to the West, fighting for survival, is the most important point in an important new book. Paul McGuire's There's Freedom for the Brave (William Morrow Co., $4) is a powerful statement of the thesis that the West cannot defeat the evils of Communism without conquering the weakness and the evils in its own body & soul. The book has two parts and two aims. In the author's words, the first is to show the world "What's Up," the second, "What's to Do." Author McGuire is considerably more successful...
...from Another World. There's Freedom is written with infectious moral fervor; few recent books on "world affairs" have made more sense on the essentials of the present crisis. It points out that the greatest menace confronting the West today is not an outside force from "another world." Communism is part and product of Western civilization, a symptom-like a fever sore-of its crisis. Western civilization produced the Communists, and gave them their strongest weapons. The Communists do not win their victories simply by launching "offensives" against the West; they win whenever and wherever a vacuum is created...
...giving fair and impartial treatment to many of today's most important problems in the natural and social sciences. Students would no longer be the sole judges of a teacher's lectures; instructors would also have to satisfy the Commissioner of Education. The Sullivan Bill would endanger the academic freedom of every educational institution in the state of Massachusetts...
Next week the Young Progressives are holding a meeting in Emerison D with the discussion topic, "Academic Freedom." Professor Darret of the Univer...
...that anyone not intimately familiar with the educational policy and the financial problems of the Provost can really analyze it. Students, alumni, and Faculty alike must take his word for it. The important thing now is what the Faculty and Arts and Sciences should do with the freedom which this extra money will give them...