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COUEISME AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (from the Chicago Maroon): “Four short years ago, Paul Robeson, artist and suspect Communist, appeared at Mandel Hall . . . This last week Paul Robeson . . . returned . . . The difference between these concerts strikingly illustrates the change in attitude toward academic freedom or perhaps the change in academic freedom itself. When Robeson appeared four years ago, he was a McCarthy-branded Communist. Robeson . . . met opposition from . . . students, the chancellor and administration, the community at large . . . [This time] . . . Robeson sang … to an enthusiastic crowd . . . The sponsors met little opposition from fellow students, the administration, the community . . . Robeson indeed has become respectable . . . As one University wit phrased it: ‘These are the same people that attended four years ago, only four years older.’ One might add ‘and four years more politically respectable.’ No one stayed away from this concert on principle except perhaps a few aberrant Trotskyites and conservative law students.”

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William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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(Fall Clean-up)

COUEISME AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (from the Chicago Maroon): “Four short years ago, Paul Robeson, artist and suspect Communist, appeared at Mandel Hall . . . This last week Paul Robeson . . . returned . . . The difference between these concerts strikingly illustrates the change in attitude toward academic freedom or perhaps the change in academic freedom itself. When Robeson appeared four years ago, he was a McCarthy-branded Communist. Robeson . . . met opposition from . . . students, the chancellor and administration, the community at large . . . [This time] . . . Robeson sang … to an enthusiastic crowd . . . The sponsors met little opposition from fellow students, the administration, the community . . . Robeson indeed has become respectable . . . As one University wit phrased it: ‘These are the same people that attended four years ago, only four years older.’ One might add ‘and four years more politically respectable.’ No one stayed away from this concert on principle except perhaps a few aberrant Trotskyites and conservative law students.”