Word: shintoists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that communists are especially desirable on a faculty. My faith, if there is any left to me, is in the undogmatic mind, the mind free to exam data without pro-conclusion and to aim for the conclusion implicit in the data itself. No party-liner--communist, catholic, bible-fundamentalist, shintoist, or what you will-is wholly free to observe this process, and to the extent that he is not free he is undesirable as an instructor in most courses, particularly in those courses where the nature of the material seeks to discover questions rather than mechanical answers...
...Japanese-among them [Isamu] Sammy Horino* who takes care of my garden. Sammy and I have had many conversations about Japanese-American relations before Dec. 7 and after. Of his patriotism I have no doubt. He is not a suave diplomat, smilingly betraying, nor is he a stiff-faced Shintoist bowing to racial superstitions. He is Sammy Horino, American-born, conditioned by the world we all know, with its faults and virtues. He might harbor the resentments mentioned, but it does not keep him from being a friendly, cooperative person. He hopes, as we all do, for a better world...