Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private cubicle Friday night, staring at the cork wall and then plunged headlong into the gray pamphlet marked Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Hmm, well now," he mused, "like any dutiful junior gov major, I shall take Gov 106a, The History of Political Thought I, this term, in order that I may be fully prepared for my general examinations next year." Methodically, Delwood turned to page 176 in the catalogue and found his prey. MWF at 12--great, noon is a fine time for political theory, good old political theory." He made a note...
...this climate of semantic "moderation," economic proposals that might have sent people to jail not long ago and are still denounced as dangerously radical, find remarkable acceptance within the College community. Harvard Square has not been treated to a healthy radical pamphlet in years, it is true, and even private discussion of politics has shrunk to an alarming minimum. But in the libraries and lecture halls, students are quietly absorbing the economic and political beliefs of those whom most "conservatives" bitingly call the "left-wingers...
Last week the first sober study of consequences was published by the hard-headed Southern Regional Council. The authors: Education Professors Donald Ross Green and Warren E. Gauerke of Atlanta's Emory University. In an objective, 40-page pamphlet (If the Schools Are Closed . . .) they dismantle the private school plan completely. What the scheme amounts to, they prove, is something akin to amputating a broken leg and giving the patient a matchstick to hobble...
...Generation of Murderers." Occasionally, the Soviet anti-American campaign slips to patent idiocy. A 65-page pamphlet entitled "Their Morality" carries the publishers contention that it portrays "bourgeois morality in its true likeness," then opens with prize exhibit No. i: Denver's Jack Graham, who sought his mother's insurance in 1955 by filling her luggage with dynamite, killed her and 43 other plane passengers. Graham was executed for the crime-a fact omitted in the account. To show that bourgeois morality prepares for war, the pamphlet falsely quotes U.S. Draft Boss Lewis Hershey: "We need a generation...
...this climate of semantic "moderation," economic proposals that might have sent people to jail not long ago and are still denounced as dangerously radical, find remarkable acceptance within the College community. Harvard Square has not been treated to a healthy radical pamphlet in years, it is true, and even private discussion of politics has shrunk to an alarming minimum. But in the libraries and lecture halls, students are quietly absohbing the economic and political beliefs of those whom most "conservatives" bitingly call the "left-wingers...