Word: man
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California and New York delegations have very definite vice-Presidential nomination hopes. In addition to being a favorite son Presidential candidate, California's Governor Edmond Brown has chances at the second spot on the ticket. Although he may privately think the junior Senator from Massachusetts is the best man, Brown cannot support Kennedy without cutting his own political throat as far as 1960 is concerned...
...students attend class six hours each day, including Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 P.M. For the most part, one man, either LeFevre or a guest lecturer, talks uninterruptedly; some time there are discussions among the class. The most common form of homework, besides the reading from three short textbooks, is a daily 200-word paper, on such assignments as "Assume you are a private contractor. Tell how you could build better highways than any government could...
...Freedom School teaches, essentially, the freedom of individual man and the injustice of institutional force. To the school's devotees, life's two worst evils are taxes and schools. Taxes are a highly objectionable example of the coerciveness that necessitates the eventual abolition of central government. Compulsory public school education is a vice and a tool of the existing order, teaching socialism on government handouts...
...short, it teaches that man has two absolute rights--to life and to property. There is never a conflict between these two privileges, and one is no good without the other. It is a wildly different, extremely right-wing way of thinking, but the Freedom School perseveres and prospers in the far mountains...
...said in discussing the Laski incident, the Lowell Administration "acted so as to make every member of the teaching faculties feel that he could teach, write, and say what he believed to be the truth, with due regard to decency in utterance and appropriateness in occasion. No reasonable man could breath the air of Harvard at this time and not feel free...