Word: truth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poet Mark Van Doren: "The issue should not be what a teacher is or believes, but how he teaches ... A Communist who . . . deliberately twists or distorts the truth ... is a bad teacher and should not be kept in his job; but so is a pragmatist, a Christian Scientist, or a Mohammedan who does the same thing...
...Columbia College Dean Harry J. Carman: "Any person who is a member of the Communist Party is not free to seek or disseminate the truth . .. The end product of the Communist teacher's work is Communist propaganda...
...dying of leukemia, but nobody had told her how sick she was. When the 13-year-old youngster developed a strange craving for watermelon, not available in Tucson, her doctor appealed to the Arizona Daily Star for help. It promptly asked its readers to help Barbara. To keep the truth of her sickness from her, Barbara's parents hid the newspaper. But that only made Barbara suspicious. She guessed that she was dying, and she refused to eat anything at all. Desperately, Barbara's mother appealed to the Star to "print something to make her happy...
...meat of the matter, and the point must not be missed. The point is that a private enterprise system is making the fatal mistake of impinging on the one really sacred piece of private property: private opinion. If nothing else, Rogge's book is a reminder of a truth we must not forget; that in America, freedom is, among other things, a state of mind...