Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing else, Burger's appointment should act to quiet the more strident critics. Southerners like James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will be less likely to claim, as he once did, that the court is "the greatest single threat to our Constitution." Even Eastland might find it hard to reverse his judgment of last week, which called Burger "an outstanding jurist and a very fine...
...issues. He visited California to boost Cesar Chavez' striking agricultural workers. In Washington, the Senator condemned excessive spending on the space program and blamed military psychology and pride for causing unnecessary American casualties in Viet Nam engagements like Hamburger Hill (see THE WORLD). Then, in a purely personal act, he pleaded for mercy in the sentencing of his brother's murderer...
...persuasion, are so much more dangerous is that they can point to success after success of their disrupting tactics. The greatest danger, then, is presently the readiness with which violence is afterward excused, and the seemingly convincing arguments which are bought forth to justify it before and after the act. Worst and most dangerous of all, there seems to be a tendency in our society to legitimize the results of violence so that, as Kant put it, the God of success afterwards serves as advocate for the violent action that preceded it and suggests its future...
...comparable group of the population. They become dangerous again because of their high intelligence, which permits them to hide more successfully the degree of their disturbance from the nonexpert. Having worked professionally with some of them for years, I know that student revolt permits them to act out their paranoia to degree that no other position in society would permit them...
...action came as an amendment to a bill to appropriate $3.8 million for a new program that would pay part of the interest on private loans made to colleges for construction. The amendments would deny such funds to colleges that fail to enforce section 504 of the Higher Education Act...