Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew Issue. Nixon's most basic error may well turn out to be his selection of Spiro Agnew as a running mate. At Miami Beach, he effusively praised the Maryland Governor's "courage, character and intellect." Yet it was transparent that Agnew was chosen in large part because he was acceptable to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and others in the party's Southern wing. Nixon spoke earnesty of Agnew's campaigning talents and called him "a statesman" who was amply qualified to take over as President...
Gorey: He has greater expertise on foreign affairs than Humphrey has. One problem with decade or so, when it became a possibility that he could become President, he did some things that ran counter to his basic ideas. For example, he publicly supported a resumption of the bombing in early 1966, but privately he was against it. But I have a feeling that the old Humphrey is still there and we may see it. Sometimes, though, you get the impression from him that God is in heaven and all's right with the world. Nixon projects an image...
...prophetlike beard, clear eyes, ever-ready smile and imposing stature, this year's Nobel Peace Prizewinner really looks the part. René Cassin, 81, noted French jurist, was a chief architect of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that defines the basic rights of all mankind. Pleased as he is with the prize and the progress that has been made in human rights, Cassin is still very much the judicial pragmatist. "Peace is still distant," he notes, "and much remains to be done. Men of good will do not exist everywhere...
...have teamed up to research and do battle with the auto-insurance business, which in their well-documented opinion sells inadequate and inequitable protection to the accident victim (TIME Essay, Jan. 26). So far, they have won nothing but hostility and bitter opposition from most insurance companies. But their Basic Protection plan, drafted into a model bill, has been presented to legislatures in eight states...
...rationalization on my part, but it seems to be a reasonable stance. Thus, a political line can never justify the distortion of truth -- I am still enough of a "scholar" to believe in this much. However, I must also say that I believe over-reliance on "reason" is basically escapist. Reason is simply and only a tool, to be used to further whatever ends one wishes.* It is not an end in itself, in spite of the desire by many to worship such procedures as reason, logic, and pragmatism as cardinal virtues. This view fits neatly into American-style utilitarianism...