Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These are the supporting facts of American life which are threatened by the agnosticism of prevailing political sciences. These convictions are vital to the success of our defense program . . . The cruel contest between freedom and slavery thus moves from the battlefield into the classroom. The call is not merely for the revival of faith, but for the resurrection of fact...
Some 40 college heads joined in a statement issued March 24, which asserted that "freedom of thought and speech is vital to the maintenance of the American system..."but which carefully noted that "'academic freedom' is not a shield for those who break...
...sources of suspicion, even to some of their own alumni. Where before, they were subject to only routine governmental surveillance, both public and private schools have become legislative punching bags; cursed at, investigated, and legislated against with monotonous frequency. Even the concept "academic freedom," formerly considered as vital to a university as football and ivy, is in bad repute. Like "peace" and "democracy," academic freedom has gone the way of terms discredited through use by the nation's enemies...
That this attitude has results which thwart the free research and expression that is vital to education in a democracy is a point made too often to need support here. What must be remembered, though, is that even though a healthy attitude for controversy and research still exists at most universities, this does not mean that academic freedom has not already been limited. Freedom dies piecemeal, for every violation that comes to light, there are scores of actions that were self-repressed--meetings that were never held, research conclusion never expressed, political activity never taken up, humanitarian caused that failed...
Canadians were shocked to learn last week that Communists are in a position to cripple the country's vital uranium industry, which helps supply U.S. needs...