Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like when we were in New York last for a recordin' session," says Jethro. "One of the execs came down to ask if we had any ideas would help the sales of our records. I told him, 'Sure thing. Put Perry Como's name on the label.'" Says Homer: "We get a kick out of havin' those fellows go away talkin' to themselves...
...freedom to read," said the declaration, "is essential to our democracy. It is under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove books from sale, to censor textbooks, to label 'controversial' books, to distribute lists of 'objectionable' books or authors, and to purge libraries...
...public interest to force a reader to accept with any book the prejudgment of a label characterizing the book or author as subversive or dangerous. The idea of labeling . . . supposes that each individual must be directed in making up his mind about the ideas he examines. But Americans do not need others to do their thinking for them...
...whole unwhole world of 1953-the Communist world, the Socialist world, the liberal world, the reactionary world-agrees on this: the U.S. is the citadel of conservatism in a tumult of innovation. Yet the label "conservative" is about the last tag that the typical American would think of applying to himself. How explain this contradiction...
...Originally the Committee was set up to determine in advance whether a particular speaker would violate the law, which reads, "during such meetings there shall be no advocracy of the subversion of the government of the United States nor of the State." The Committee's original policy was to label "objectionable" only a vowed Communists, and thus keep them from speaking at Michigan. The newer controversial Committee interpretation of "objectionable" speakers was widened and now includes anyone who belongs to organizations on the Attorney General's list...