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...only and best answer for the present is the one given by the three professors: fight back. The scholars must go on teaching, arguing, and researching. Holders of presently unpopular views must maintain their advocacy regardless of the environment of fear. They must teach the country to see the awful structure we are now building up, so that we might begin pulling it down again--all the committees, investigations, and inquisitions--to let the air and light of freedom in once again...
William Stoughton Class of 1650, was a "prominent, wealthy and unpopular" leader in Massachusetts life during the later half of the seventeenth century. His grandiloquent sermons and the leading role he played in the witchcraft trials led a contemporary to describe him as a "pudding faced, sanctimonious, and unfeeling witch-hanger...
Last week, installed as Syria's new Premier, primarily to clear up the country's financial mess, Hakim again took an unpopular stand. He declared that Syria (which is roughly equal in size and population to Missouri) should align itself with the West, a point of view which sometimes results in having one's head blown off. Surprisingly, Syria's strong man, Lieut. Colonel Adib Shishakli, who had approved Hakim's premiership, made no objection; neither was there popular outcry. Hakim's reasoning, in interviews with newspapermen, was hardheaded...
...aided an occupation power (Russia) in its legal right to arrest a suspected war criminal. To let a German court sentence him for doing so, said McCloy, would only encourage old Nazis to come out of their holes, start endless legal proceedings. It was a legalistic argument, and an unpopular one, but McCloy was determined to stick...
David and Bathsheba takes itself much more seriously than Samson and Delilah. Scripter Philip Dunne has made a literate adaptation of the story from the second book of Samuel. His characterizations of David (Gregory Peck), a national hero grown cynical, lax and unpopular, and Bathsheba (Susan Hayward), a proud, shrewd charmer, are thoughtful and thorough. And Peck's performance carries surprising authority...