Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agony-race relations. Richard Nixon rightly boasts that he has spoken on 167 issues, and Hubert Humphrey laughingly admits that he is criticized for having more solutions than there are problems. But quantity is no true gauge. The candidates have not yet spoken explicitly and specifically about scores of basic issues that go to the heart of America's future. They have not revealed a definitive set of priorities for applying the nation's resources to its problems. They have not even produced much eloquent, let alone elevated language, no memorable line that is worthy of becoming...
...basic question, as Negro Actor Ossie Davis states it, is "Who interprets the Negro to the American? Basically, it has been done by the whites." As a result, says a Negro marketing consultant, D. Parke Gibson, "integrated advertising can only change the whites' image of Negroes. It cannot change the Negroes' image of themselves." Thus, says Gibson, the reaction of the black community to integrated ads is "neutral" and has little or no effect on their buying patterns...
Long before the three new Nobel laureates began their experiments, scientists had learned that the message of heredity is carried by large molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the chromosomes. Researchers had deduced that somehow DNA directs the cells to assemble amino acids into the proteins that form the basic structural material of all living beings and impart their characteristics. Then, in 1953, James Watson (author of The Double Helix] and Francis Crick put together more of the puzzle; they discovered that DNA consists of twin helices that are held together by regularly spaced links similar to the stairs...
...basic argument is that the only legitimate and tolerable position on the Vietnam War is "opposition," that the only tolerable evaluation of ROTC's role in American policy is "counterrevolutionary," and that therefore democratic decision-making is irrelevant to decisions about ROTC because there are no decisions to be made. The SDS letter maintains that because belonging to ROTC is immoral, a student has no right to do something immoral, i.e., join ROTC. Visions of Cotton Mather! Or, indeed, George Wallace, a proponent of similar doctrines of absolute truth...
...former telephone operator from Washington, D.C., believes that "astrology as a language is a basic tool for understanding people, and reveals all that can be revealed." Drugs, too, can be useful, but "only if used to share consciousness. Using them for the self, for kicks, is a misuse...