Word: unamerican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, there is something faintly "unAmerican" about making collective society so all-important. To him, the most important aspect of education is "just that intellectual and moral development of the person as a person which these educators believe is now outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society: science. According to modern educational dogma, science should be the final test of all action; all things outside it-"man's ingrained habit of setting up ethical and moral ideals, his belief that his own life must mean something and that the universe should 'make sense'"-are "prejudices...
...Unamerican Activities investigation is over, but the resulting contempt of Congress cases are still to be decided. Among those determined to make the Supreme Court define the limits of such contempt is Eugene Dennis, secretary of the American Communist Party. At its final session last term the Court decided to make him wait a little longer. It looks as if Dennis, and the rest of the country will have the Court's answer to this and some other important questions in a short while...
...girl who doesn't go to college will soon be considered unAmerican...
...worst bits of melodrama is Parnell Thomas UnAmerican business, and you just can't possibly go around telling every European that the guy is a crackpot and that most of the people don't think that way or that there are many honest liberals in America. UnAmerican investigations come over here as a story almost of terrorism, of restriction of political freedom (which it is); and people are honestly harmed. If there are 400 thousand Communists in CRS or a million in France, they're Communists because they want to be--or they've legally voted that way--and they...
WASHINGTON, July 21--The House Committee on Unamerican Activities took to the warpath against Henry A. Wallace anew today after testimony that the Communists are "pushing" for a third party which he might head...