Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professors have always to conform and avoid unpopular views whether in class or out what kind of men will they be? And where will our young men and women go to hear and weigh new ideas, to consider both sides and acquire balance and integrity...
...well documented book. Unfortunately its facts are not always as clearly stated as their sources. In a chapter, "Tolerance, Appeasement and Freedom," Mr. Blanshard criticizes the Knights of Columbus for committing "the fallacy of irrelevant conclusion." This means that they deny some misconception very close to one of the "unpopular" Church dogmas in order to deceive people into believing that the Church upholds American principles (and also denies the dogma). When the Knights of Columbus say that it is an "erroneous idea" to believe non-Catholic marriages are invalid, they are knocking over a straw man. The Church teaches (horror...
Continentals call this tendency "dirigisme" it is increasingly unpopular on the Continent. The French, Italians and even the sober Belgians consider the British taste for controlled austerity to be somewhat perverted-what might be called economic masochism, or love of suffering. The British look down their noses and reply that their controls are merely good housekeeping...
...Board of Regents claiming that its action was tantamount to the establishment of "a standard of political orthodoxy . . . the next step may be whether a belief in Catholicism or the single tax are acceptable. Both of these are doctrines of considerable rigidity and both have been at times highly unpopular...
...month before the election, Vargas suddenly installed his unpopular brother, Benjamin Vargas, as police chief. Dutra and Góes Monteiro decided that Vargas was preparing to cancel the elections. They staged a coup of their own which abruptly ended Vargas' 15-year rule. Chief Justice José Linhares became acting President until the election, which Dutra won by just over a million votes...