Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jungle, the doctor has built a private world for himself which he refuses to alter. Even his time is his own; the hospital clocks do not run on G.M.T., like all the rest of the country, but are set according...
...discussion of the roots of contemporary liberal education, Pusey identified two educational ideas which emerged in the nineteenth century to alter the traditional concept of education as the transmission of a relatively fixed body of knowledge...
...Constitution provides that upon "application" by two-thirds of the states, Congress "shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments." The amendment would abolish the convention clause, make it theoretically possible, because of disproportional representation in state legislatures, for legislators representing less than 20% of the U.S. population to alter the Constitution. 2) Place the apportionment of seats in state legislatures beyond the reach of the U.S. Constitution and the federal courts. This amendment would annihilate the Supreme Court's 1962 Baker v. Carr decision, which brought apportionment of state legislatures under review by federal courts...
...dogmatic answer, John asked questions, and encouraged others to join him in finding out whether old forms were still right forms, customary methods were effective methods. Says Father Murray: "He gave rise to a whole new 'problematic': What is the problem? How do we somehow alter the state of the problem? These questions are his heritage...
...heroic "revolt against tyranny," pleaded for coexistence with the U.S., and angrily threatened nuclear war if the U.S. dared lay a hand on Cuba. He even rang in the American Declaration of Independence, quoting: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive . . . it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it." "Not bad words," said Khrushchev approvingly...