Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectual's duty was to do more than that-to criticize the en lightened people, to criticize his own side." The dogma of liberalism was that the liberal could do no wrong, and for some the day of disillusionment came only with the fall of Alger Hiss, when it became "impossible any longer to believe that . . . the liberal is per se the hero...
...editorial as "probably the biggest loser in the whole row," because he delivered "near-fanatic harangues" and received "his first public rebuke--from undergraduates at large." Not only is "at large" left unelaborated, but "near-fanaticism" is not evident in Father Halton's speech or, surprisingly, that of Alger Hiss, both appearing in the May 4th issue of U.S. News and World Report...
...difficult to conceive of reasons, or even of excuses (other than sensational publicity), to justify the invitation of Hiss, a convicted perjurer, to address an institution dedicated to the pursuit of truth. To find truth is hard enough without adding to its elusiveness. Alger Hiss was convicted of a moral as well as a legal crime. Precedent assures us that it is not likely that Hiss would have anything to say to searchers for the truth in a repository of the truth. Law and conscience tell us that he is outside of the tradition. If we were to deny this...
...your April 16 "Guest at Breakfast," I get an uneasy feeling reading (and even rereading) how Washington Post and Times-Herald Publisher Graham's "men of good will were embarrassed by the Hiss case." Does being "men of good will" necessitate defending Hiss against Nixon before the facts were in (like Acheson and Stevenson), and then, after Hiss was proved a perjurer and traitor, continue attacking Nixon because he "used the subversion issue as a political weapon"? Maybe such subtle Ivy League logic is too refined for us coarse Westerners; maybe that's why New Dealish defenders...
Although Princeton University was rigged for trouble, the campus appearance of Alger Hiss, convicted perjurer and disbarred lawyer, in his first public speech since his release from the Lewisburg federal pen in 1954, turned out to be tame and dull. Protesters that morning had tried to warm Hiss's reception by decking the campus with some 100 papier-mâché pumpkins containing photographs of a Woodstock typewriter and microfilm, reminiscent of the pumpkin papers and other evidence that convicted him. Dawn also unveiled three signs protesting "Traitor" in foot-high red letters. But ex-State Department Employee...