Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...otherwise laudable editorial your reference to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" was unfortunate. After all, the word "traitor" is a pretty strong one to apply to an individual who holds views that are unpopular. If Robeson and his co-fellow travelers of Communist double-think are ever judicially determined to be traitors, then they will be such not to any ethnic or religious group, but to their country. Why, it is as silly to refer to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" as it would...
Bishop Sheil made himself just as unpopular with fringers on the right as with those on the left. At one forum on Christian-Jewish relations he was viciously heckled by a delegation of Christian Fronters, and a virago pushed her way towards him as he was leaving. "I'm a Catholic!" she screamed. "You're not a Catholic-you're a nigger-lover and a Jew-lover. You call yourself a bishop. You're not a bishop, you're a rabbi." And she spat in his face...
...always so. At first, the Faculty did not particularly take to him. His policies and his manner were unpopular and personally he has always been shy and somewhat aloof. Nevertheless, by constantly encouraging the Faculty to participate in decisions-unheard of in Lowell's day-by heavy work and sheer competence, and by a warmth which could not long go undetected, he beat this hostility. Political acumen and cool craft have by necessity remained, but combined with tolerance, with sympathy and generosity-in short, with what one professor splay called "manners of the soul...
Because the rights of the unpopular were carefully written into the United States Constitution, the federal courts have always been stumbling blocks to temporary majorities. Whether the contemporary crusade has been liberal or conservative, courts have usually fulfilled their obligation to remind the public that no cause, no matter how popular, can exceed the limits of the Constitution...
...Lubells are communists we do not sympathize with their politics. But we do affirm their right to be unpopular, even to be wrong, and we will treat them as human beings as long as we admit ourselves to be fallible and imperfect. Carl Sapers '53 Robert Layzer '53 Anthony Bellenson...