Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...period of rapid social and political change, it is highly probable that academic laissez faire will result in temporary shortages in new areas of interest such as Chinese communism, urban ghettos, Afro-American studies, and radical economics. However, the American educational system is more flexible than most in responding to such felt needs...
...after the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA) dropped a bombshell resolution-to dump the Haynsworth nomination-it held dedication ceremonies for its research center...
...notable feature of the American system in comparison to Western European or Communist countries, however, is not how heavy the influence of the established system is, but how much flexibility there is within it. Even though some branches of government and some donors have a narrow definition of their interest, the availability of such support frees up other funds for less popular research areas. A research institution should therefore not be tested by whether it accepts funds that are limited to particular uses, but by the quality of its total product...
...building, financed and built by the Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Foundation, now centralizes services of the Foundation, an educational and research branch of the ATLA, and the Association itself, which tries to bridge the gap between law school and law practice...
...sudden German invasion and conquest of France in the terrible days of May, 1940, "It was a bolt of lightning that lit up the darkened sky and revealed the Third Republic in all its ghastly infirmity." Perhaps bursting bombs and burning huts have done the same for the American Republic...