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...Suppression of freedom of speech does not defeat communism, or fascism, or any other -ism," he declared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Teacher Bill Rejected In Legislature | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

...does he describe his present work? "I don't lean toward any 'ism," Price says. "To me my work is very realistic. [The important thing is to] get away from that tightening-up feeling. You've got to loosen up. You've got to feel all over, like pitching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Long Trail | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...with me that the difference between the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations is that with Roosevelt we were drifting toward socialism, but with Truman there is no drift-it's a headlong rush . . ." Said Summerfield: "We must be brutally frank." The G.O.P. should "divest itself of 'me-too-ism' and go to the people with a program clearly defined and unmistakably in opposition to that now offered by our opponents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Not No, No, No | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

First, it means that if a student is interested in anything at all, he's got to be interested in Princeton. There's nothing else around. The result is one of the biggest displays of college spirit and confessed rah-rah-ism in the East: Princeton is one of the few places where over 300 persons will parade in a rally for the freshman football team...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

University officials do more than tolerate rah-rah-ism: last week Assistant Dean Lippincott told the Crimson "We'd do anything to get a more cohesive group." As an example, Princeton has never riveted down the clapper to the Nassaue Hall bell, which tradition decrees must be stolen annually by the freshman class. The class of '50 ran off with 40 clappers in their year, and each time the University bought a new one and tied it half-heartedly in place...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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