Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were there none the less, and the Young Progressives must be chided gently for failing to produce their man. Since they had similar ill-luck with William E. Du Bois on Monday night, even their own followers must be getting disappointed. We say, give us your dissenter to listen to or to heckle, but leave us not to sit staring at a vacant blackboard for two hours...
...University's fears for its good name are ill-founded. Just two years ago, when the John Reed Club sponsored Gerhart Eisler's appearance here, Dean Bender said: "Our policy for student organizations is simple. Any recognized group can hold a meeting in a Harvard building . . . and listen to any speaker they can persuade to come. The fact that a man speaks at Harvard does not mean that Harvard in any way endorses his views or even that the organization involved does. If the Dean's Office were to attempt to decide who would be allowed to speak...
Said the captain to the platoon: "I can teach you how to fight. Listen to Smith read TIME as you march and you'll know why you're fighting." Wrote Rookie Smith: "Our platoon now boasts that it is the only one that can march and simultaneously study the enemy firsthand, via TIME...
...problem of security was obvious and compelling. But no one wanted the throttling kind of thought control inspired by Mc-Carthyism and leading, as Harry Truman aptly put it, to "the deadly imposition of conformity." Many a plain citizen, confused and alarmed by all the whirling words, would listen carefully to a quiet, disinterested voice that spoke with knowledge and authority. The commission might fail; but if it could find the way to security with freedom, it would earn a nation's gratitude...
...call come? . . . The difficulty about getting these things accomplished is that you always think a little more time lies before you. And yet when you open the morning paper and read that someone you talked to a short few days ago is gone, it makes you stop, look and listen...