Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...institutional officials have direct acquaintance with student life, in general, and with the involved student and the circumstances of the case in particular. The jurisdictions of faculty or student judicial bodies, the disciplinary responsibilities of institutional officials and the regular disciplinary procedures, including the student's right to appeal a decision, should be cleary formulated and communicated in advance. Minor penalties may be assessed informally under prescribed procedures...
...everything and everybody must fall silent." Violence is not power. In the last analysis it is an admission of failure, a desire for a magical shortcut, an act of despair. Shameful though conditions in the Negro ghettos are, violence is not really the only language left in which to appeal for improvement...
...home. Scarcely three weeks ago the party paper, Red Flag, proclaimed that President Liu Shao-chi, symbol of all the revolution is attacking, had at last been pulled down. But last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that Mao welcomes the skirmishes abroad to lessen his followers' frustrations at failing to win a decisive battle in the Cultural Revolution...
...addiction is a sickness that cannot be deemed a crime without violating the Eighth Amendment guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." In 1966, two U.S. appellate courts invoked Robinson to excuse alcoholics from charges of public intoxication. Yet in this past term, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from an alcoholic despite a sharp dissent by Justice Abe Fortas, who argued that "the use of the rude and formidable weapon of criminal punishment of the alcoholic is neither seemly nor sensible, neither purposeful nor civilized...
...often the author's theory is lost in jargon or banality: "In a political process, finally, the relative power of the different groups involved is as relevant to the final decision as the appeal of the goals they seek or the cogency and wisdom of their arguments." In history and memoir, which fortunately occupy the bulk of the book, Hilsman is pungent and direct in his appraisal of men and events. Defense Secretary McNamara is described as "almost totally lacking in self-doubt," former CIA Director John McCone as a man with "a rough and ready sense of decency...