Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again; they warrant only quick review now. The affidavit is obnoxious because it is a vaguely worded attempt to assure conformity to an officially "safe" norm of belief; because it singles out the academic community for suspicion of disloyalty and requires that students, unlike any other class of people, must reaffirm in writing that they are loyal; because it constitutes a dangerous Chauvinist precedent for any future federal aid to education acts; because, finally, it alienates the loyal while failing to protect in any effective way against the disloyal...
...students, Faculty, and Administration are serious in their opposition to the loyalty affidavit, they must prove it with direct and quick action. If the affidavit is not repealed soon, it will never be, and it will be an obnoxious part of every future education bill...
...Must Die begins innocently, even happily. It is a day of triumph for a small Greek community. Their local oppressor, the Turkish Agha, has benevolently granted his Christian subjects permission to engage in their religion; he has allowed them to stage their passion play. But he, in his infidelity, and the town, in its belief, do not realize that more than a church festival is at stake. Able to cope with the reality of Turkish conquest, they are not really able to cope with belief...
...nicest ways to get awa> from it all is to go climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...
...slice deep, and only once does Author Calvino suggest a theme. That is when Voltaire asks Cosimo's brother: "But is it to be nearer the sky that your brother stays up there?" The answer: "My brother considers that anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from...