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...postwar years on the court, Jackson carried on as he always had-ably, and with a lucid pen. But clearheaded and forceful as he was, he never quite succeeded in expressing what it was that he stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: A Hard Man to Pigeonhole | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...example, been president of the American Anthropological Society, and editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. But he is not the dull academic he claims to be. His book, Mankind So Far, which deals with such a complex topic as human evolution, is so lucid and light that it has sold over 20,000 copies. This sale is a incase for a scientific none that Doubleday was also happy to snap up his two subsequent books, The Heathen, a study of primitive religious, and Back of History, the history of humans, published this year...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: "Us, Not Fiji" | 10/6/1954 | See Source »

...every case of threatened infringement of academic freedom ends on a sad note. Often lucid men acting with dispatch effectively challenge attempts to curb free expression. Such is the instance in the argument between the Hall County Farm Bureau and Professor C. Clyde Mitchell of the University of Nebraska, in which the professor's right to state his opinions was forcefully defended by his university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Vindicated at Nevada and Nebraska | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...time when a great many people-including influential Americans-are becoming almost emotionally 'for' him, it is important to recognize the Mendès-France anomaly: he combines an extraordinary lucid view of France's capabilities and responsibilities with a refusal to deny the naïve conviction of most West Europeans that Communists are basically ordinary people with whom, if you try hard enough, you can always do constructive business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Consecration of Facts | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...every case of threatened infringement of academic freedom ends on a sad note. Often lucid men acting with dispatch effectively challenge attempts to curb free expression. Such is the instance in the argument between the Hall County Farm Bureau and Professor C. Clyde Mitchell of the University of Nebraska, in which the professor's right to state his opinions was forcefully defended by his university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Vindicated at Nevada and Nebraska | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

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