Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be argued that the use of stereotypes by Archie Bunker is an ideal way to use them, especially since one may even laugh at Bunker, the buffoon. But research on All in the Family shows that its impact is to reinforce the prejudice of those who are already prejudiced. There is very little movement ideologically among those who watch it. Indeed a faculty colleague reported that while in the South observing a White Citizen's Council rally, to be held at 6 p.m., he was astounded to hear the reason for the early start. The speaker ended the rally...
Academic freedom means that an individual can hold both an academic position and heterodox political opinions. On Friday, the only ones "hypocritically perverting" that "worthwhile ideal" were the editors of the Harvard Crimson. --Steven A. Benner
That someone with such blatant disregard for human life and democratic procedure could teach political science would be laughable if it were not so tragic. Columbia's use of the academic freedom argument to defend its desire to hire Kissinger is a hypocritical perversion of a worthwhile ideal; Columbia administrators should listen to the students and faculty members there who have protested the university's offer and withdraw its offer to Kissinger...
...James ideal would not die. During Britain's General Strike of 1926, chaos beckoned; instead the populace cooperated, and the nation was actually strengthened by the imminence of peacetime catastrophe. In the '30s Depression, the moral equivalent of war was articulated and taken literally by the Roosevelt Administration. Men of military age marched with shovels instead of rifles in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Indeed, Southern conservatism is now the major obstacle to passage of the amendment. Two-thirds of the states that have refused to ratify the ERA are in the South-which still proclaims the romantic ideal of womanhood, and where resentment continues to fester over civil rights laws and constitutional amendments passed almost a century ago. As the Rev. Bob Clark, a fundamentalist pastor, thundered during a Florida radio talk show: "Section 2 [of the ERA] says the Congress shall have the power to enforce the article. There's Big Daddy Fed again... When you start getting the Federal Government...