Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that article your Milwaukee correspondent says that the character "John Steele" in my play, To the End of Time, is John Lewis. I merely wish to say that I have no control over anybody's personal opinion. Nor is that particular feature in his report the one that motivates this letter. What I have in mind is a certain very important inaccuracy-albeit undoubtedly an inadvertent one-in your article: your correspondent said that I obtained my finances from the "antilabor overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes...
...move to rally student opinion rather than to formally protest to the University, the John Reed Society will start a petition campaign to support its stand against the University for not having allowed Earl Browder to speak at Harvard, Robert Seidman '41, president of the Society, announced last night...
...other hand, we cannot subscribe to your purely destructive criticism which would accuse us of underhanded motives and pass off the entire poll as valueless. The purposes of the poll are two-fold: to sound out student opinion on Harvard's attitude toward war and peace; to determine what agreement there is on the HSU program. If there is disagreement on those points there is simply no danger of our making a pretense of unanimity. The charge of a sinister attempt to pass off our opinion as that of the majority is unfounded and is certainly not proved by your...
...punch-drunk from the barrage of opinion and heckling which had assailed him ever since the beginning of the European war. The weeks had been telling on him, these hectic weeks out of which erupted the AIL, the Student Union peace poll, verbal battles in the Crimson over neutrality, and peace meetings by the score. Conscientiously Vag had tried to make up his mind about it all, to decide just what stand he should take. But a solution to the problem seemed to be always just beyond his fingertips...
Greene, however, reiterated his faith in free speech and claimed that his action is in no way a violation of free speech at Harvard. Greene bases his decision on his opinion that a meeting at which the indicted Communist spoke is not "appropriate to the atmosphere and traditions of the University...