Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trevor Gardner, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force who recently resigned in protest against official policy, will give the main address at a free meeting of the Law School Forum on "Guided Missiles" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Langdell North Middle Auditorium...
...night at 7 o'clock, an angry, chunky Soviet colonel named Ivan Kotsiuba called a press conference in East Berlin. Purpose: to protest the building by "American organizations" of a secret tunnel under East German territory, "with the criminal intent of spying." Offered a chance to see for themselves, the Western newsmen were taken to a site some 500 yards from the radar station at Rudow...
Passivity & Protest. "The teachers I know," says Green, "agree almost unanimously in preferring to teach what may be called advanced academic subjects . . . The pupil takes these subjects because of some intellectual spark of his own." The required courses are something else again. Of 26 pupils in a tenth-grade English class, for instance, three might be outstanding students, 13 might range from "medium to poor." five may be "very poor," and five may be "incapable of doing anything that could properly be labeled tenth-grade English. They do not write a sentence; they do not know or care about capitals...
...current exhibit of Kollwitz' work at Manhattan's Galerie St. Etienne clearly shows. Although she left few garlands in honor of Apollo or Aphrodite, her deep cry of sorrow at the death of her son, her compassion for the oppressed and bereaved, and her elemental protest against war would have been understood by all the women who lined the walls of Troy. For Kollwitz' images, somber though they are, are reflections of everywoman...
...academic freedom issue, the row over the appearance of Alger Hiss was a heartening reaffirmation of Princeton's principles. Gregory Vlastos, professor of Philosophy, said that the appearance of Hiss in spite of protest was a great boost to University morale. "There is terrific pressure to maintain freedom," according to Vlastos, "and for the people who have a clear understanding of academic freedom, it really strengthens Princeton's reputation...