Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Williams twists the knife a little deeper. He warns parents that American colleges are educationally inadequate for their children. The essence of his argument: "Students in our universities are not learning as they should and the teacher is at fault...
...Middle East review was believed to have focused on the bitter argument between Iraq and the United Arab Republic, which has raised tensions throughout the entire area. Top American officials are known to favor a strict hands-off policy toward this quarrel...
...usual, officialdom in Washington and London protested De Gaulle's timing most of all: in the middle of the Berlin crisis, it was essential, they said, to convince Russia of Western unity. But this was not an argument calculated to sway a man who had never hesitated in World War II to put pressure on Britain and the U.S. at precisely the time when it would have maximum effect...
...that Anouilh's long one-act is everybody's show. It dramatizes what Shaw called "moral passion," where as most people are more interested in the other kind. The action is kept resolutely offstage, and we are treated instead to long analyses of situation and motive. But the argument is intense and beautifully conducted, and it is as irrelevant to call the play "talky" as it would be to call a drama of the heavy-breathing school "action-y." The production would be a credit to any Harvard organization; when a critic thinks of chucking it altogether and retreating into...
...Treasury's argument is that the allowance off taxable income (ranging from 5% for clay to 27½% for oil and gas) was originally conceived as a form of compensation to industries that extract raw materials and thus presumably "deplete" their storehouse of goods. It was meant to apply only to the raw material itself. But recent court decisions have extended the allowance to include a wide range of refined and processed products. Oilmen, for example, are able to compute the allowance on the value of petroleum products made from gas as they come from the cycling plants...