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We shared growing up
in the rural/small town mid-West. We often talked about
the remarkable tolerance people had toward neighbors,
some of them very strange, and the intolerance they
showed toward outsiders, no matter how seemingly
normal We went through other
experiences that were not shared by all. We shared growing up in the
rural/small town mid-West. We often talked about the
remarkable tolerance people had toward neighbors, some of
them very strange, and the intolerance they showed toward
outsiders, no matter how seemingly normal. We both went through
McCarthyism and the witch-hunt. We learned how little faith
one could have in the courage of university administrators,
most faculty and students, and the American Association of
University Professors. We shared having had older
friends who had fought in the International Brigade in the
Spanish Civil War. We also shared the experience of having
taken part in the 1948 Wallace presidential campaign, a time
when we thought that a brave new world was on hand. Ann's
optimism was unflagging. Ron Johnson
Honolulu,
Hawaii
As recalcitrant and oppositional people, we shared our
negative feelings about politicians -- especially
Republicans -- but almost all of us shared these
experiences. We also had little regard for University
administrators (Deane Neubauer a notable exception). But
almost all academics felt the same.
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