Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ourselves manufacture news. We make a practice of 'rounding up' opinion on events, occasionally manufacture news about our own crusades by playing them far out of proportion to the news value...
...provision stipulating state control of any school accepting state support, another requiring such schools to open their doors to all pupils, no matter what their "origin, belief or opinion." The church was stunned. At week's end, quailing at the prospect of a debate packed with so much emotion, Deputies on both sides began calling on De Gaulle for his personal arbitration. But the general, having seen his Cabinet dangerously split for the first time, chose silence...
...cautioned the Economist, if "as seems all too dangerously possible-the tide is missed this time, it will be because Western politicians are frightened of getting too far ahead of public opinion...
Even before his election as president, Lowell, professor of Government, took no pains to hide his opinion that the undergraduate part of the University badly needed reorganizing. On numerous occasions he had uncompromisingly opposed Eliot's approval of both the free election system and the three year degree, so that by the time of Eliot's resignation, Lowell had made it entirely clear that he disapproved of the College's present condition...
...time when discussion was being muzzled and the free expression of opinion stifled in many American universities," Morison had 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...