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...world's liveliest carnival of ideas, the mandarins dispute, propound and quarrel. Every week 380,000 Frenchmen buy the four intellectual weeklies that record their latest pronouncements. In regular newspapers, they often command more attention than politicians or priest Roman Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, in Le Figaro, urges French youth to a more dynamic Christian socialism. Existentialist Merleau-Ponty attacks Sartre for his latter-day allegiance to Stalinism in L'Express, is answered by Simone de Beauvoir in Les Temps Modernes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man's Quest | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...Moscow liberals" are free under the Constitution to propound and propagate their ideas. That is the way it should be. But surely Harvard is under no moral or legal obligation to lend its auspices to the communist cause by employing communist fronters, if any. The Constitution doesn't guarantee anyone a lifetime job on any faculty--nor does it say that the authority which hires cannot fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Letters, Pro and Con, on McCarthy-Furry | 11/18/1953 | See Source »

...gather evidence of subversion, has shown the Congressional committee substantial proof of his claim. The existence of communist ministers is a reality and a dangerous one. When a man chooses the ministry, he accepts even more stringent responsibilities than does a teacher. He is free to evaluate and propound ideas, but they must be concepts compatible with his calling. That a man of God should profess a Godless doctrine is an impossible paradox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philbrick: Planted Ministers | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

...thirty years . . ." PAUL A. HOFFMAN Chicago ¶The only reason Senators Clay and Mason got away with it is that nobody in the Senate objected. The day Clay took his seat (Dec. 29, 1806 ) , a Senator sitting near him asked his age. "I hope," replied Clay, "my colleague will propound that question to my constituents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Questions. "The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined," said MacArthur. Then he proceeded to propound a series of questions which might be taken as the text for the Republican campaign against the Fair Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: MacArthur for Taft | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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