Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no longer any argument in the U.S. that air pollution corrodes health and property alike. But the issue is now cloaked in political smog. Who should have the clear, primary responsibility for cleansing the atmosphere...
...emphasis in the 51 years since the Apollo program began. At the start, speed was all-important. The Russians were already boasting to wavering nations that their space firsts demonstrated the superiority of the Communist way of life. And there was little doubt of the impact of their argument. Everywhere, everyone capable of understanding the significance of the Russian achievement recognized the impressive technological, industrial and scientific skills that lay behind it. Intuitively, people sensed the national purpose that produced the Russian program. Physicist Edward Teller used a sure, fund-winning tactic when he testified before a Senate committee...
Firth emphasized that the war is a moral issue. He summed up his argument with an excerpt from The Gospel According To St. Matthew: "Whatsoever [harms] the least of my brethren [harms...
Criticizing the argument that morality is uncompromisable, Blanning said: "Morality has always had to be compromised...
...political matter like conduct of the Vietnam war does not make the Columbia manifesto any less a victory for anti-Vietnam war forces. And when a college of Columbia's stature joins the no-rank club, there is a good chance that it may initiate a snowball effect. The argument presented at Harvard, and elsewhere, that faculties should refrain from concerted action, is in no logical way weakened as more schools refuse to release ranks--just because everyone is doing it does not make it right. But the argument, logical to the end, might simply fade away