Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from punitive measures. Self-criticism and criticism of others should take place in heart-to-heart talks between comrades. There must be no mass public assemblies and no battles." The new campaign even went so far as to ask, "Should we deny masses the right to strike?" and to answer no, for to do so would be to "increase the contradictions instead of resolving them." All this was part of a campaign known as "Unite, Criticize, Unite Again...
...Much, Too Long. What went wrong? "If somebody could tell us," says an NBC executive, "maybe even Sid's psychoanalyst would be delighted to hear it." One part of the answer is simply that he has been visible too frequently for too long a time. Caesar's Hour has been uneven in quality, has suffered from a tendency to prolong sketches and milk laughs. Sidekick Coca is still missed, say diagnosticians, both for herself and because Caesar seemed more sympathetic as a henpecked fall guy in her sketches than he has as the assertive husband of Nanette Fabray...
...miles v. 50 miles for Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles. Once launched from a trailer-like "transporter-erector," an electronic guidance system flies the Bomarc, seeks out the enemy formation until it gets close enough to trigger a high-explosive, or nuclear, warhead. Boeing has been working on an answer to high-flying atomic bombers ever since the first 6-52 designs took shape in the late '40s. The first Bomarc was flown in 1952, has since been perfected in dozens of tests against high-flying drones; the Air Force now calls its accuracy "superior." With B-52 production slowed...
...your wife?" is regarded as the symbol of all loaded questions asked by lawyers. But N.Y.U. Philosophy Professor Sidney Hook contends that the question "Do you now or have you ever beaten your wife?", is an eminently plain question and that anyone who invokes the Fifth Amendment rather than answer yes or no may be fairly suspected by his neighbors of having in fact cuffed the little woman around...
...Hook offers some cases of his own. including that of the man who goes fishing with a companion: a cry and a splash are heard: a drowned body is found. What would anyone think, asks Hook, if the fisherman refuses to reply to questions with the explanation that "my answer would tend to show me guilty of a crime...