Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Presumably, of course, the Senior Fellows had good reason to use the excuse they did use, but surely no reason could be anything but lame and unconvincing. If it had simply made teaching and student relations its sole standard, this lameness and weaseling would never have been necessary. This is not just a question of public relations; a decision based on such equivocation is close to being no decision at all. Furry's action was grave misconduct, but his retention should have been for clear-cut academic reasons, not vaguaries...
These cuts were proposed last week by President Eisenhower when he asked for 5.2 billion dollars less in military appropriations that was requested in Truman's "lame-duck budget." Almost this entire cut is in the Air Force appropriations which are to be slashed from 16.7 billion to 11.7 billion...
...NAACP group had refused the film, they could expect sympathies, since Robeson has proved himself a traitor to the good name of the American Negro. But the U.N. Council presents a particularly lame reason for chickening out of the Emperor. Its exhibition will make them a "partisan" organization, they say, and thus restrict their ability to get UN diplomats as speakers. Disregarding the patent observation that the film's content is as controversial as a baby chick, this argument assumes an incredibly naive view of the UN itself. There are, in fact, few institutions more controversial than the UN. Patriotic...
...those who rail against "our godless campuses," Walsh recognizes a religious vacuum in most colleges. Putting the point differently, he declares that the campuses have in fact a plethora of gods, false gods with no effective challenge from the true, Christian Deity. With Christianity under the wing of a lame-duck Department of Religion, under no formal wing at all, or ludicrously capsuled in the binge of a "Religious Emphasis Week," the field is abandoned to haloed secular gods, like relativism, materialism, and "scientism." In Campus Gods on Trial, Walsh tries to prove the inadequacy of the varied isms...
Walter M. Ulin '54, president of Ivy Films, last night contradicted the Monitor report, saying that his group had ordered the film "Emperor Jones" from a distributor's catalogue, but that the distributor, Ideal Pictures, Inc., had later withdrawn it. "They thought of some lame excuse," he said...