Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group not drawn to the Woodrow Wilson School has been the radicals. There are a few students like Burlingham in the undergraduate branch, but virtually none higher up. So the argument put forth by some critics of the school--that it converts its students into establishment thinkers to begin with...
...America, the defenders of the 2-S insist, must protect its students to prevent the decimation of a generation of college students, such as occurred in Great Britain during World War I. The ranks of America's future leaders should not, they say, be thinned by war. A related argument is that most of the men in college deserve to be there, that the university in America is more the haven of the intellectually talented than a refuge for the rich...
...fellow ministers at a regular Cabinet meeting presided over by Franco. Trouble began almost immediately. To show their disinterest, half a dozen Cabinet members jumped to their feet and walked out of the room. Castiella, who has championed the bill for ten years, nevertheless pressed on with his familiar argument: granting religious freedom was not only the right thing to do morally but also the right thing for Spain if it wants to become a respected member of the world community. Several of the ministers who are identified with the Opus Dei laymen's organization supported...
Unbalancing Holmes. In rejecting Miller's argument last fall, the Appellate Court pointed out that Congress is fully empowered to regulate the draft; the card-burning law, which amends the Selective Service Act, simply strengthened "an already existing regulatory scheme." If a law is thus constitutional on its face, said the court, judges are not ordinarily supposed to probe its sponsors' "real" motives...
...there is only Vietnam. The rubble of Vietnam. Over and over and over and over again in the public lecture halls, on television, in the papers -- everywhere. We have heard all the arguments, pro and con, a thousand times. We have tread the path of the same argument countless times and in each case derived the same answer. All else, previously beautiful, has faded from our sight. We have become disillusioned as a nation because we hear nothing but Vietnam -- day and night. And in addition to all this ugliness and loss of beauty -- it's damn boring. George...