Word: unpopular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jones introduction deals mainly with recent attempts in this country (rather than in Germany or in Russia) of a majority to retain the unpopular utterances of a minority. The anthologist, in a well reasoned statement, rejects "arbitrary classifications of citizenship" according to membership in parties or groups Communist, Republican, atheist, or what-have-you. One must judge "men rather than platforms," Jones says, and "Ideas considered pragmatically (rather than) ideologies...
...CRIMSON has managed to stand in defense of the individual: will it be brave enough to continue this policy by favoring as unpopular a position as the one I maintain? Gordon Zimmerman...
...Council regulation forbidding discrimination would state in legal terms what these groups already know, the discrimination is becoming an unpopular standard for picking your associates. It would probably make the bias of one group tacit rather that overt. That is all. And the measure would be an-other restriction on the freedom of undergraduate groups. This one abridgement of freedom would imply the Council's right to make any such abridgements, to put restrictions on what an organization can do, or what it can say, or where it can meet. A rule forbidding discrimination, which might be a good rule...
...general strike rolled on. Arias, declaring himself opposed to a "police state," let it be known that he had in his pocket the signed resignations of Police Chief Remón and his two principal aides. But for the moment wily Arnulfo delayed taking action. After all, unpopular as Remón had become, he still commanded 2,400 well-trained police, the only armed force in the republic; any doublecross of him would have to be expert-and permanent...
...only people in Indonesia who were really contented were the soldiers of the Dutch army, who had been conscripted for unpopular service in a steaming, tropical land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel verlaten (Goodbye, we're pulling out of this mess) and Doe het self maar verder. Gaan naar moeder (Do it yourself. We're going home to mother...