Word: arguments
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Principal Threat. The clear implication of Bobby's statement was that his brother had had no use for either the "domino theory" or the argument that China might threaten U.S. security. Bobby was wrong on both counts. Two months before his death, John F. Kennedy was asked if he doubted the validity of the theory that a defeat in Viet Nam would imperil the rest of Southeast Asia. "No," he replied. "I believe it. I think that the struggle is close enough. China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that if South Viet Nam went...
James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, used the same argument to support instituting the pass-fail option. The proposal has "great symbolic significance," he said, because it was initiated by students, and Faculty denial "would show that we don't have much faith in them--that we think they would use the added freedom to loaf...
...strongest argument against RUS is that it will not work at the present time. The College Council will probably not accept a student government which proposes to make its own rules. And it will definitely not allow student representation on the Council...
...aloof, balanced expressiveness sought by most composers of his time; the demonic orchestral outbursts and sudden silences in the first movement of No. 80 point ahead to the struggle-locked manner of the later Beethoven. To initiate the finale of the Sinfonia Concertante, four solo instruments conduct a nonverbal argument among themselves, a passionate foreshadowing of the violent orchestral disputation in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...Coleman Report thus adds a vast weight of fact to the irrefutable moral argument for integration. And it was perhaps expecting raining affirmation of that principle that Civil Rights leaders and educators from all over the Northeast attended a Harvard Ed School colloquium on the Report last October. The conference brought together some of education's foremost scholars, including Coleman, in the first public forum of its kind since the Report's appearance. A unanimous call for integration would have been a genuine breakthrough. And falling that, a clarification of the issues dividing experts would have at least explained past...