Word: trammeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found the suggestion that the student should not be allowed to explore alien philosophies of government or economy; nowhere do I indicate that the faculty should not be at liberty to indict and analyze deficiencies in American life; nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy. If he has notions at complete variance with these latter, which are, to the best of my knowledge, considered by the trustees of Harvard, the vast majority of Harvard alumni, and myself...
...Buckley denies that these measures would abrogate academic freedom. He says that "nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy." There is where Buckley's "logically impregnable" position falls. For Buckley's conception of the basic nature of a "free economy" is just as much an orthodoxy as a party-line adherence to Communism. Adherence to Buckley's orthodoxy can trammel thinking quite as effectively as the "forces of socialism and atheism" which Buckley feared in his broadcast...