Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father's tracks-in his case, to the U.S. Senate. Wagner too may decide that the best route to Washington runs through Albany, as it did for Senator Herbert Lehman. Or he might be persuaded to run by those New York Democrats who feel that Junior is just plain poison. But, as of last week, the chances were that in November young Roosevelt would be the candidate, running against the man his father beat for the presidency: New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...45th annual convention of the world's largest service club, a back or two was certainly slapped. Total strangers called each other by their first names without let or hindrance. But the names were called in accents that ranged from the flat twang of the Western plains through Teutonic gutterals and mellifluous Urdu to the cool precision of Oxford English. And they weren't all Tom and Harry. There were Karls and Kims and Bongs and Phyas and Mohammed Alis and Yoshinoris and Joaquins and Chaunceys as well. Their identification tags bore legends as disparate as "Funeral Director...
...handle the matter as a vote of confidence. "It is rationally unthinkable," commented Finance Minister Edgar Faure with a shake of his head, "but the fall of this government is passionately wanted." Word from Geneva. The desire of the Assembly might not be rational, but it was plain. The Laniel government had refrained from doing much of anything about anything, so as to offend...
According to Moskoff the major problem of the investigators is the kind of subversive being" sought and dismissed: "It is plain that any person who actively supports a totalitarian government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership... in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the KuKlux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action...
...position of the intellectual is influential, it is also precarious. That the words "academic freedom" and "free inquiry" are in many quarters regarded as little more than cliches is evidence of this split status. The pressure is to conform, but it is only too plain that a Russian Research Center report slanted to fit the views of a particular political party is more than worthless-it becomes a positive danger. And when a natural scientist finds that his fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity...