Word: unpopularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same token, most of them have defended professors who advocate politically unpopular causes. The McCarthy era aside, one only has to look back to 1965 to remember the outcry that arose when Republican politicians called for the resignation of a Rutgers University professor who complimented the Vietcong in from of his students...
...violation. Pittsburgh's John Horty, who directed a classified project to collect U.S. treaties and documents affecting defense agreements with other nations-and found the techniques equally applicable to the assembling of nonsecret documents-believes that academic freedom is supposed to "guard against emotionalism." He thinks "temporarily unpopular research" should be protected against the "emotionalism" of those who oppose...
Surely many Faculty members were keenly aware that 15 years ago the Mallinckrodt demonstrators' arguments were employed by politicians so righteous in their anticommunism that they wanted to deny basic rights to "questionable" individuals. At that time, the Harvard Faculty stated that those who hold unpopular opinions should not be muzzled and must be able to exercise their rights. The Faculty vote on Tuesday reiterated that wise statement. It was also, quite obviously, an effort to deter future abuse of civil rights on this campus...
...script," allowed House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, "is a good one from our standpoint." Indeed, the plot that he laid out was compelling, if not exactly original. It called for G.O.P. Representatives and their Southern Democratic allies to deny Lyndon Johnson his request for an unpopular tax increase, beat every tom-tom and kettledrum for economy, and force the President to take responsibility for specific spending cuts. The House last week voted 238 to 164 to do just that...
There was every reason for last week's annual Tory conference to be a celebration. The Labor Party's economic programs have proved both unpopular and unproductive. Prime Minister Harold Wilson is widely accused of being a cynical and somewhat oily manipulator of power. Tory candidates have swept eight recent local elections, including those for two Parliamentary seats that were once considered safe for Labor. And the latest opinion poll showed a significant swing to the Conservatives, who now trail Labor by a mere 1.9% of Britain's voting public...