Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe girls, however, tended more toward pacifism. The contrast emerged on the question: "IF the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union OR surrender to the Soviet Union, would you favor war or surrender?" While the substantial majority of both men and girls selected "war," Radcliffe girls were more prone to consider "surrender" as an acceptable alternative. Whereas 75 per cent of the Harvard men chose "war," only 64 per cent of the Radcliffe girls preferred "war" to "surrender...
Pasternak, Billington feels, seems to have the solid support of all significant Russian authors. Very few of them signed a petition to expel Pasternak from the Writers Union and there has been much criticism levelled at the leader of the Soviet Youth Congress who had stated that "calling Pasternak a pig slanders...
...United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union OR surrender to the Soviet Union, would you favor 215 war; 82 surrender...
...poll--as well as one of its least dubious findings--is the overwhelming preference among the Harvard-Radcliffe young intellectuals for war rather than surrender "if the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union or surrender to the Soviet Union." All of those responding to the poll must have been aware that such a conflict could mean nothing less than a nuclear holcaust thaat would annihilate Western civilization, if not our the very species, and in which "victory" would become a word utterly without...
...religious conviction and political policy is dimly suggested which, if it can be trusted, is of the very first philosophical importance. There are two statistical facts 1.) that among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative in the face of an otherwise inevitable world war with the Soviet Union was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one 2.) the group of 215 who chose war include over fourfifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality of the soul (all but fourteen...