Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China, my hunch is that it will pay to keep behind the official Chinese Communist position-far enough not to be covered by the same label-but enough ahead of the active Chinese liberals to be noticeable . . . For the U.S.S.R.-back their international policy in general, but without using their slogans and above all without giving them or anybody else an impression of 'subservience...
...phrase as title for a movie (TIME, April 30). Twentieth Century-Fox won the registration race, and the title was assigned o a story about an infantry platoon's galant rearguard action in Korea. Last week, with the film nearing completion, the company dropped the label as "not suitable." Slew title: Fixed Bayonets...
Modern totalitarianism, according to Berggrav, is the flowering of this insidious line of thought. "There will be an awful day of judgment for us if all we do now is to put the label 'knave' on those of our contemporaries who are responsible for the present state of affairs, and refuse to recognize that there is a thread of continuity throughout...
This was in line with the attitude found in the 72 other colleges studied throughout the country where the Times found that individuals are inhibited from speaking out on controversial issues by fear of: "1. Social disapproval; 2. A 'pink' or Communist label; 3. Criticism by regents, legislature and friends; 4. Rejection for further study at graduate schools; and 5. The spotlight of investigation by Government and private industry for post-graduate employment and service with the armed forces...
There is no neat and easy label for him, though "rational anarchist" comes close. In his probings of the modern spirit, Santayana also comes as close as the 20th Century is likely to get to another famous moral gadfly: Socrates...