Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mistake of putting only one man on him, Lavelli scored 40 points (next time Princeton switched its defense, put two men on Tony and upset Yale 47-45). When Williams tried guarding him with one man, he racked up 52. No one had so completely mastered the one-handed hook shot, flipped while taking a stride away from the basket, as Tony Lavelli. His detractors pointed out that he was slow afoot and weak on defense, but Yalemen replied: "All Galli-Curci could do was sing." Tony Lavelli could shoot...
...only 'accepts the party program, attends the regular meetings of the membership branch of his place of work,' but 'who is active in party work.' Inactivity as well as disagreement with the decisions of any party organization . . . are grounds for expulsion." For detail, Hook quoted an official party organ (The Communist, May 1937): "Communist teachers must take advantage of their positions, without exposing themselves, to give their students . . . working-class education." They must be thoroughly grounded in "Marxism-Leninism . . . inject it into their teaching at the least risk of exposure and at the same time conduct...
...question of whether the party is legal or illegal is beside the educational point, said Hook. The point is that Communist professors are under specific orders to violate academic freedom; when they do, they forfeit the right to enjoy that freedom themselves...
What about professorial fellow travelers and party sympathizers? The problem is more difficult, said Hook, but the solution is simpler. Since such teachers are not under the hard discipline of the party, "they may still be sensitive to the results of honest inquiry. Whatever harm they do is incomparably less than the harm that would result from any attempt to purge them...
...Hook's answer: his peers. "I am confident that if the execution of the policy were left to university faculties themselves, and not to administrators and trustees who are harried by pressure groups, there would be little ground for complaint. In the last analysis there is no safer repository of the integrity of teaching and scholarship than the dedicated men and women who constitute the faculties of our colleges and universities...