Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allow all such open criticism and discussion to continue if our democracy is to survive. Repression of "dangerous ideas" creates a far more dangerous situation than if they are aired fully and freely in the public eye. In order to think intelligently on today's vital political, economic, and social issues, high school and college youths must be acquainted with both sides of the matter at hand...
...purpose of the committee is to gather books to aid in the "upbuilding of a center of intellectual life beyond the reach of the present invasion." The committee is going to concentrate upon books in the social sciences...
...youth Louis Brandeis forced the passage of the social insurance laws through the Massachusetts legislature while his enemies branded him a dangerous radical. Although his dislike of the "red menace" doctrine during the war impaired his chances of appointment to the Supreme Court, he nevertheless courageously regarded the drive as a menace to civil liberties. And once on the high bench, there never was any question of his compromising with what was hostile to his liberal tenets. Rarely did Louis Brandeis agree with his conservative colleagues; because of his celebrated minority opinions, vritten in league with his great contemporary Justice...
Normality, says the psychologists, is to be judged by your adjustment to your social environment. If the psychologists are right, then the big books of etiquette are, next to success stories, the most neurosis-making books current. For nowhere else can you find advice more irrelevant to the modern mode of life...
...graduate schools should be enlisted to help, and the support of the deans of the graduate schools should be secured so that they will immediately refer their foreign students to the Committee. Once they have settled their charges, the activities of the Committee should take a more social turn. Various members of the Faculty might easily be persuaded to entertain the foreign students in small groups along with any natives who were interested in meeting them...