Word: hue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variation of the tutorial system. Each of the six fellows appointed at the time were approved by President Conant, but Hicks today doubts that Conant then knew he was a Communist. Whether the president knew it or not, however, he defended Hicks when the Boston press raised the "red" hue...
Though Diem was born in a straw hut on his father's estate near Hue (where his ailing, 87-year-old mother still lives behind a wall to keep off evil spirits), he is of the upper class, and he talks without self-consciousness of "the little people." He is proud of his Vietnamese heritage: "We are a country of principles, an old country, a country built village by village. Viet Nam is a solid thing . . ." And he is reluctant to change it, but: "Sometimes I think we Asians are too reserved, talk too much by nuance. We ought...
...Communist troops struck at the nationalist Ngo Dinh clan, raiding the mansion at Hue and burning Diem's collection of 10,000 books. The Communists arrested Diem; they took hold of Diem's respected elder brother, Ngo Dinh Khoi and buried him alive. But only four months later Ho Chi Minh, concluding that he needed the backing of some pure nationalists, summoned Ngo Dinh Diem from prison. "Come and live with me at the palace...
Within a few weeks, the cry about their hue forced Conant to make a special report to the Overseers. The President, who at that time did not enjoy the complete confidence of the Faculty he was later accorded, held fast, arguing that the University cannot appoint a man just because his views are unorthodox. "If academic decisions are to be influenced by the fear of their being misinterpreted as interference with academic freedom," Conant said, "then academic freedom itself, to my mind disappears." The New York Herald-Tribune hailed Conant and his stand, describing his as a man "tolerant...
...headed the Select Senate Committee that recommended cen sure was not to be swayed by the hue and cry of either the Ten Million or the Twenty Million. Said Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Watkins: Joe's censure should be decided by facts, not by a nationwide counting of noses...