Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urge you not to do it. You will open the floodgates of hatred." The morning after his historic nomination, the nominee was surprised to receive a telegram from the same Jewish organization, hailing his nomination as a "triumph of the American dream that neither religion nor race is a barrier to public office." The telegram also asked him to endorse the organization's statement that there is no such thing as a "Jewish vote," and that Americans vote solely on the basis of what is best for America. Summoning his assistant, Meyer said: "Brady, tell them I endorse their...
...Nigeria, the judiciary serves as a barrier between the powers of the executive and the rights of the individual, he said. Individuals can go to court if ministers of state exceed their delegated authority...
Silence is a much more severe barrier than violence to a volunteer who wishes to communicate. Some of the patients remain hunched over in their chairs or lying on the floor and will not even look up when they are spoken to. Confronted with this, even the most determined volunteers become discouraged. But if individual approaches fail, group activities--singing, playing checkers, strolling outside the ward--can sometimes draw a patient out of his shell and reaccustom him to communicating, at first without words, and later verbally...
...only when he had to take medication. But at a Christmas party in the ward the volunteers induced him to make a greeting card, and as he wrote "Merry Christmas" on it he said, "I can't write too well. I can't write too well." Once the barrier had been cracked even slightly, he grew steadily more responsive, and in a short time was going on walks outside the ward...
...DESIRING, by Menno Gallie (192 pp.; Harper; $3.50) is a sort of border ballad about the frontier between England and Wales. Few Americans think of that line as much of a barrier, but to Griff Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves...