Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reynolds gave the Council several reasons for rejecting the idea of a survey at an informal meeting Wednesday afternoon. At that time, it was reported, he said there was no real need for a survey, and, in his opinion, the results of the Council's poll did not indicate such a demand...
...questions I should like to ask are these. Is it the opinion of the CRIMSON editors that undergraduates would like or would profit by a non-credit course or half course? Is this a favorable educational situation for teaching or learning the difficult business of educated writing, especially when it is fair to presume that those required to take a non-credit course would be the least competent students? Again, in what ways do the editors of the CRIMSON suppose that "a greatly expanded English C" would differ from the general aims and methods of English...
...right of unlimited debate, may test the determination and the conscience as well as the endurance of the majority . . . It is the majority which does the damage under our American form of government. It passes legislation. It is the majority that should be restrained . . . I now am of the opinion that cloture, in any form, is an evil, a termite gnawing at our very vitals, an instrument of which we would be well...
...right of a university administrator to fire a teacher for professional incompetence. Did Communist Party membership lead to that kind of incompetence-by imposing a party line where there should be freedom to inquire? That was a big issue in the Washington case. Now, it seemed, U.S. public opinion, which had never decided for sure what academic freedom consisted of, might have to chew on another: Does party-lining without membership in the party destroy that freedom...
...gaum O'Casey woke up with a bump to find that most people were clay after all. When his proletarian plays were staged by Dublin's Abbey Theater, many critics hissed maliciously and poets looked nervously the other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear public opinion; even democrats get a kick out of wearing striped pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled in Peg o' My Heart...