Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beleagued Harvard apologists explain the "smartness" of their Radcliffe counterparts concerns admissions and the old economic law of selectivity. Radcliffe, with entering classes of about 300, naturally can accept a higher percentage of the "cream of the crop" than Harvard, which admits a class of 1100, so the argument runs...
...Senator Harrison Williams echoed the cry of many another Capitol Hill Democrat about President Eisenhower's proposals for a balanced budget in fiscal 1960. The whole notion, said "Pete" Williams, was "mythical." At about the same time last week, Pete Williams & Co. got some studied support for their argument: a staff report from the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation flatly predicted that the Eisenhower Administration's hopes for a balanced budget are doomed to red-ink disappointment. Federal income in 1960, said the report, will come to $75.8 billion instead of the $77.1 billion predicted...
...Many Capitol Hill Democrats, led by Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright, want to list the IMF money in the 1960 budget, which would tilt it heavily out of balance. In predicting a $4.2 billion deficit in 1960, the joint committee report assumed that Fulbright & Fellows would win the argument. Last fortnight the Senate voted 58 to 25 to give Fulbright his way. But last week the House voted 86 to 36 to go along with Ike. That left the decision up to a Senate-House conference committee to settle after the spring recess...
...including his own. The column was, in fact, his own idea, proposed last year to Marshall Field Jr., Sun-Times publisher and onetime Adler disciple (in what Adler calls "the Fat Man's class,'' the Great Books course he gives to business executives). Adler's argument was that newspaper readers think: "The American public can understand more than we credit it with...
...Spanish classes for another six hours, gets his points of grammar and sentence structure across during heated, free-style debates about the state of the world. An English class of 18-year-old boys last week began reading about poverty in 18th century England, then wandered off into an argument about present-day economic and social conditions in Red China and the U.S. To a U.S. partisan who overstated the material abundance of America, Hamlett said gently that "Yes, there are poor people in Los Angeles, too." Moroccans are much concerned with race prejudice in the U.S., listen intently...