Word: unreasoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maintain and replenish the precious reserves of tolerance, if only with a quiet word here, a small action there. That may seem desperately inadequate against the fanaticism of both left and right, but the sum of many such words and actions may eventually sway the balance between reason and unreason. You can, above all, help redefine the meaning of American democracy, as it has been redefined in every generation since the founding. America is involved in an experiment with meaning for all the world: to discover whether it is possible to have a technological society that is also humane...
...Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Government and Social Relations, is co-author of The Politics of Unreason, a study of right wing extremism...
...then opposed halting classes in support of the student strike. He was overruled by the faculty. He also called the police after students occupied an administration building to protest the university's war-related research. Said he: "We seek a victory of reason and the examined life over unreason and the tyranny of coercion...
...many children as there are black students at Yale College (about 250). The real goal, though, was to mobilize Yale's students and teachers to help stop or at least influence the murder trial. The climate was such that Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. saw no unreason in characterizing the murder trial as "legally right but morally wrong...
...Hurrah for Milton Friedman and his "libertarian anarchism" [Dec. 19]! In this age of new economics, unreason, mysticism, New Left hysteria and everyone's paranoia, it is refreshing indeed to hear someone speak calmly, wittingly, logically -all of which Mr. Friedman does so well...