Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only one major respect was Nixon's statement a departure from past policy, and this feature was the most insidious of all. In a transparent appeal to particular ethnic, geographic, and economic segments of the population. Nixon called on "the great silent majority" for support of his program. It is questionable whether that majority exists where the Vietnam issue is concerned, but one thing is certain. This appeal, combined with Nixon's obstinate refusal to offer any concessions to the peace movement, can only further polarize an already bitterly divided country. If the President's strategy succeeds it will...
...Students can only achieve their objectives indirectly by influencing policy makers or the groups to which policy makers respond. If activism alienates these groups, students have improved nothing but the state of their own psyches. One of the sources of strength of the radical movement is its appeal to unblemished goodness based on pure intentions. "I put my body on the line" they shouted at Memorial Church on the day after the bust, and there were few who did not feel a twinge of shame for not having done the same. However laudable objectives are not enough...
...laws" doctrine, can be logically extended from schools and voting to such new areas as the granting of private credit and pension rights and even to a system of guaranteed income by judicial decree. Judicial power, Berle feels, has not been adequately "institutionalized." It is now subject to no appeal "other than agitation or, at worst, mobs in the streets." One of Berle's proposals for institutionalizing the court's self-appointed mandate is a council of advisers and a congressional committee to suggest laws ensuring constitutional rights. The object is to confront and deal with political questions...
...practice we have been able to study a wide range of countries and topics ranging from planning models to income distribution and criticism of U.S. Aid Policy from a variety of points of view. In fact, I find it difficult to imagine any subject that would appeal to a serious scholar on which it would not be possible to work because of the sources of our financial support. This would include the functioning of socialist and communist societies, the factors conducive to social revolution and other examples suggested by Burke, MacEwan. and Bowles...
...biblical scenes, though born in the artist's imagination, are as alive as the portraits. Filled with bunched bodies and old faces these master pieces appeal even to the skeptical modern eye. Concentrating on the crowd, some doubting, some frightened, some barely paying attention, Rembrandt depicted how ordinary people react to Christ in the course of day-to-day existence. The warmth emanating from Christ incorporates itself in details among people, in a calm face or one hand leading another...