Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assume this allegation refers to the findings of the A.E.C. Personnel Security Board which in 1954 denied Dr. Oppenheimer security clearance. One of the counts against him in the majority opinion found his moral character defective because in one instance he had lied to the security officers.... Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the nature and circumstances of the incident. Dr. Oppenheimer was approached by a friend, Prof. Haakon Chevalier, while he was director of the atomic research program at Los Alamos, who suggested that it might be a good idea to keep our Russian allies abreast of the progress...
...personal bias would lead me to the conclusion that Harvard is indeed fortunate to have Dr. Oppenheimer as a lecturer; but even if I should share the opinion that he is a man of "Highly Questionable Moral Background," my knowledge of his proven intellectual abilities would lead me to the conclusion that he should be heard. Edward G. Kaelber...
...Swiss government was of another opinion, issued a brief communiqué saying that "clues" indicated that Attorney General Dubois had illegally furnished information to a foreign service, and hastened to assure the Swiss that it was "information which does not affect Swiss affairs." Dubois had committed the unpardonable error for a secret-service man and, above all, for a neutral Swiss: he had taken sides. Said the cleric who buried him last week: "He was not only a functionary. He also had a human heart...
This is the considered opinion of white-thatched Joel Hildebrand, 75, of the University of California. Hildebrand, a highly respected chemist, is one of the tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges. Last week his horrible example was a 395-page teachers' manual published by the Chicago public-school system and put together by Paul R. Pierce, now a professor of education at Purdue. The manual bears the formidable title Source Materials of the Educational Program...
...colleges confirm or corrode religious belief? Last week, after a year of polling and tabulating undergraduate opinion, a Student Council committee gave its answer for Harvard: belief or disbelief is formed before college, and college strengthens and intellectualizes these attitudes, but makes few conversions to either side. Highlights of the report: 60% of Harvard students (190 were polled, only 150 bothered to reply) "require some form of religious orientation or belief in order to achieve a fully mature philosophy of life." Only 40% attend church frequently, but 79% consider questions about the existence and nature of God of "considerable...