Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Order: "Man has been given his freedom to a greater extent than ever, and that's quite wrong. Adults like to be led. They would rather respond to a form of discipline. People say they want freedom; yet they tie themselves up completely with drugs...
...speak of freedom, but only of external freedom. You say nothing of inner freedom. To have to struggle against the KGB is a terrible thing, but what, in effect, threatened a Russian writer if, before his first visit abroad, he had refused to collaborate with the KGB? The writer would not have gone abroad but he would have remained an honest man. In refusing to collaborate, he would have lost a part, perhaps a considerable part, of his external freedom, but would have achieved greater inner freedom...
...within ourselves, and this means that sooner or later much can change. Judging by his books, it is impossible to say that Solzhenitsyn is 'persecuted and tormented.' He gives the impression of a man capable of standing up against persecution. He has already once preserved his inner freedom in prison, and will evidently do so again if he is once more put in jail. From this we can all derive strength...
...subcommittee took as its fundamental premise," Brooks told the Faculty yesterday, "that to deny our Faculty members or students permission to participate [in the Cambridge Project] is inconsistent with any meaningful definition of academic freedom. Once this fundamental premise is accepted, according to a majority of the subcommittee, Harvard as an institution cannot remain wholly uninvolved, but must accept responsibility for the direction and balance of the work by sharing control of the enterprise with...
...opposed plans to give the Docket Committee the power to restrict debate. "I propose giving the benefit of the doubt to our present freedom instead of constraint," Glauber said. He then suggested three main changes in the original Docket Committee plan...