Word: unpopularities
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...remember your visit to the University of Michigan in 1947. We remember how you were sorely upset when some students protested against your speaking here. Do you remember standing up for freedom of speech and expression when it was your view that was unpopular? Do you remember how we believed that even you, a Communist, should be allowed to express your views? Do you remember saying that you were fighting for such freedoms...
...another by-passing of the council's December counter-proposals, the Faculty refused to modify its requirement that clubs file complete lists of their officers and members with the Dean's Office. The council had asked that lists not be filed without clubs' approval as a protection to "politically unpopular" organizations...
...forthcoming novel (due next month) she may be a little on the freight. She feels that it is on an essentially unpopular subject: "It's called The Whole Armor, and my life's blood is in it. It's the story of a man's belief in God, and what happens to him. I worked on it nine hours a day, including Sundays, for two months...
...much bitter satire as topical melodrama (with some of the new blood smeared on the characters' foreheads). It is not so much an affirmation of minority rightness as a plea for minority rights; it suggests a man persecuted less for telling the unpalatable truth than for having unpopular opinions. It is livelier theater, but it seems even more contrived as a play, and is sometimes very dubious Ibsen...
There is general dissatisfaction with the situation at both Columbia and Brown, Brown's dormitories even lost their lounges two years ago because of breakage of furniture and alleged "sexual misconduct." Columbia's lounges are unpopular; though they are open mill 12, they are devoid of all amenities, and from 10:30 on there is a guard who makes periodic close inspections. Cornell seems to be happy with Williard Straight Hall lounges and its fraternities; there has been no agitation for any kind of room permission...