Word: arguments
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While admitting that the old scheme was indeed unfair, Pusey and most other educators wanted some form of lottery that would take a proportion of graduate students but leave the majority unscathed. Since no one would be guaranteed safety, went the argument, such a system would be fair to non-college men, but at the same time cause minimal disruption of the educational system. The Administration contended that such a lottery would be too difficult to administer...
...legislators rebelled against Rockefeller for excellent election-year reasons. Public opinion, expressed in letters, telegrams, phone calls and editorials, overwhelmingly supported Lindsay's basic argument that an illegal public strike cannot be tolerated lest more strikes be encouraged and that Rockefeller's takeover scheme violated the tradition of home rule. Lindsay was not exactly blameless. He had not made adequate advance preparations for the strike, and his abrupt demand that Rockefeller mobilize the National Guard to collect the garbage presented serious problems.-But the Lindsay position, based on sound principle, had the public relations virtue of offering dramatic...
...Lyman's monotony provides the best single argument for the seen-one-Avatar-you've-seen-'em-all school of criticism. Lyman may be the moving spirit behind Avatar, but he's as fascinating as the twenty-fifth installment of "The Playboy Philosophy." Avatar number 19, moreover, presents him in 28 not-so-different poses: God was never so overpublicized...
...Championship Tennis Inc., began a six-month tour in Kansas City, Mo., last week garbed in gaudy green, yellow, blue and red shirts, some with socks to match. "Color is good and correct for tennis," insists Dixon. "In fact, today white looks washed out and bush league." Surprisingly, the argument is gaining support, even in traditional circles. Says Walter Elcock, president of Brookline's Longwood Cricket Club, where players have worn only whites since 1877: "So many changes are being made in tennis, I can't see that a few more will hurt the game. I might even...
...guilt. "The survivor," he writes, "can never, inwardly, simply conclude that it was logical and right for him, and not others, to survive."If [others] had not died, he would have had to; if he had not survived, someone else would have." In discussing this phenomenon, Lifton makes the argument that all men are survivors of Hiroshima...