Word: frees
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...letter Dean Theimann affirms "The School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University." These are encouraging words, but the School's recent rack record seems to imply a Middle East exception to the First Amendment. As I understand it, the School's refusal to host a conference was preceded by its refusal to host a conference called "Towards Peace in the Middle East," to be sponsored by the U.S. Inter-religious Committee...
Still, on balance it seems that the cause of free speech has been served by the controversy. The debate in The Crimson and the audience of more than 400 who attended the conference demonstrate the interest in discussing the issues significantly outweighs the interest in suppressing them. Dr. Nancy Uhlar Murray '67 Conference Organizer
This is a small matter next to the chance for peace on earth or a free Eurasia. But it's a matter of immediate practical import. In the past decade the conservative movement remade the face of American politics. Politics must change if conservatives do. And how can conservatives avoid changing once they don't have Karl Marx to kick around anymore...
...founders of the movement in the '50s and early '60s -- the people who wrote for National Review and nominated Barry Goldwater -- included Southern Agrarians and free-marketeers, isolationists and advocates of the rollback of Communism, students of T.S. Eliot and fans of Joseph McCarthy. In the '70s there was a mass immigration of mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like...
...came along, the same worries were being expounded by John Connally. There is no such thing as a presidential primary in South Carolina without a protectionist pitch to the local textile industry. When the Fourth Reich joins the Yellow Peril as an economic bogeyman, squabbling on the right between free traders and protectionists is bound to increase...