Word: freedom
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...recommend that the School reject donations if the following conditions are attached: one, if they involve accepting money made in the United States in ways that violate U.S. law; two, if they pose a direct threat to academic freedom; and three, if they seek to honor someone associated with actions that, in the words of President Conant in 1934, strike "at principles fundamental to universities throughout the world." We also agree with the 1969 statement of former Princeton President Goheen in asserting that it is fundamental to the purposes of a university to contribute towards alleviating ignorance, racism, and bigotry...
...revolutionaries promise to restore democratic rights, to reinstate traditional practices, including the Buddhist religion, and to move Cambodia toward "peace, freedom, nonalignment and socialism," the agency added...
...function," "The house is a machine for living in," and so forth. Mies van der Rohe's "Less is more" was prefigured by the Viennese architect Adolf Loos' belief, published in Vienna in 1908, that ornament was crime: "We have outgrown ornament!" Loos exclaimed. "See, the time is nigh, freedom awaits us. Soon the streets of the City will glisten like white walls, like Zion, the holy city, the capital of heaven! Then fulfillment will come...
Saul K. Padover, distinguished American political scientist (Jefferson: A Biography, Thomas Jefferson and the Foundations of American Freedom), wrestles with these problems for 667 pages; the result is a fascinating draw. A self-described "Jeffersonian democrat," Padover exhibits an intimate and often lurid portrait. As an adolescent, Marx embraced Christ, then, in a long hysterical poem, identified himself with Lucifer. During the exhausting research and writing of Das Kapital, he was plagued by illnesses ranging from carbuncles to chronic liver inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum...
During the McCarthy era, Buck demonstrated "qualities of statesmanship" in his defense of Harvard's academic freedom from Congressional attacks which he believed infringed upon the University's constitutional rights, John van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, and a friend of Buck's for a half-century, said yesterday...