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...left more than the faithlessness of liberals to their own values. If those worn inflexible responses are all you have to back up your values, if that is your liberal university, then we may as well tear the place down. For in that case your language is the valueless language of S.I. Hayakawa (lately active at San Francisco State), and your future is a barrenness masquerading as "the intellectual approach" to "any" topic, which Dean Ford called "the business of colleges and universities...

Author: By Timothy D. Gould, | Title: An Open Letter to Liberals at Harvard From An Unrestful Radical | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...Wayne Morse, Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, and Ohio's John Gilligan. McCarthy has requested half an hour on television next week, and conceivably may endorse Humphrey at that time. Yet his support, like that of other disenchanted dissidents, may be so tepid as to be valueless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: FAINT ECHOES OF '48 | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...children, TV can lead to a confusion of fantasy with reality. "The most important thing during a child's preschool years," he says, "is learning how to control his environment. If TV offers only unrealistic and pseudo-educational programming, the child's adaptation is both unrealistic and valueless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audience: Video Boy | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...company, the rebels charge, also forced dealers to absorb the cost of remedying factory-caused defects and even to pay for advertising they find valueless. Said Yonkers Dealer Raphael Cohen, chairman of the group's steering committee: "We think Dodge makes a fine product, but we want equal treatment from our manufacturer so we can compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Dodge Rebellion | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...pretty blonde, testified that two mem bers of Dodd's staff, David Martin and Gerard Zeiller, later surmised that Klein had paid Dodd at least $10,000 for his troubles. Mrs. Carpenter acknowledged that the conversation she had overheard was merely speculation, and Stennis dismissed the testimony as valueless. But Dodd was enraged that Committee Counsel Benjamin Fern had knowingly permitted the statement to come out, announced dramatically that he would request the Justice Department to institute perjury proceedings against Mrs. Carpenter. Subsequently, Martin and Zeiller swore that Mrs. Carpenter's testimony was "false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Private Lives | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

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