Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report outlines the conclusions of a seven-month CLUM investigation of academic freedom at B.U. The report will not be released until this afternoon, but sources involved in the investigation said the report charges that...
Silber richly deserves this fate. In his eight years as president he has systematically subverted academic freedom and violated the rights of students, professors, and staff...
...CLEAR RESULT of these policies is to discourage dissent and erode academic freedom. The B.U. administration argues that persons at other universities should not interfere with its internal problems, but to accept that reasoning is to turn one's back on the extraordinary and indisputable violations of the rights of students and professors...
...Peking government's violent response to a few hundred young activists may have been sparked by fear that their views are shared by millions of educated young people in China who have thus far only dared to dream or to whisper of their desires for freedom. Many of these educated youths seem to believe that for China to become a truly modern country with what Chairman Hua Guofeng has called "liveliness of mind," democratic rights are not a luxury but a necessity. In one of its issues, the April Fifth Forum asked: "Why have Chinese in China demonstrated...
Still's sense of mission is, to put it mildly, imperial. "I had made it clear," he wrote in 1963, "that a single stroke of paint . . . could restore to man the freedom lost in 20 centuries of apology and devices for subjugation." The Met's catalogue is stuffed with this kind of rant and salted with fulminations against the demons of the "corrupt" art world that make the Ayatullah's views on the Shah seem, by comparison, mere tickling. Nevertheless, Still's notes on the history of abstract expressionism, which sharply contradict some...