Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's something for almost everybody in this overly long (300 pages), linguistically contorted and incredibly redundant report. Commission members waded through a lot of evidence before finalizing their recommendations, and they want us to know it. Stock arguments and phrases are beaten to death; even the most ridiculous alternative plans are debated in agonizing detail. Eventually, however, an argument takes shape...
...argument of the anti-apartheid forces in South Africa is best summarized in the 1976 statement of the Christian Institute in South Africa...
...argument that economic growth can produce fundamental change has proven false. Many black organizations have opposed foreign investment in South Africa, and this would be the opinion of the majority in South African blacks if their voices could be heard...
...messianic representatives of the purest revolutionary movement in the world. They are affected, if you will, by an arrogance of power." Combined with the arrogance is the urging of Moscow, which moved into the power vacuum left behind by the U.S. retreat. There is some small justification for the argument that the U.S. may have driven Viet Nam into the Soviet embrace last summer when it spurned Hanoi's modest attempts at reconciliation...
...There is the argument that publicity has more effect than facts," J. Woodland Hastings, master of North House, said last week, adding "we'll just have to wait and see what it does to the numbers...