Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splendid salves for the wounds, but they avoid the realities. There is no real progress in the pursuit of peace that anyone knows about. There is a middle America, angry at crime and dissent, in tune with much of what Richard Nixon stands for, but to ignore the basic causes of problems is dangerous...
...Hoffman was overreacting to a relatively minor breach of courtroom protocol. Although Judge Hoffman later canceled his order, 13 members of the Harvard Law School faculty asked the Illinois Bar Association to investigate his actions. Said the 13: "Judge Hoffman's conduct can only serve to weaken a basic American principle: the right of even the most unpopular defendant to adequate legal representation before an impartial judge...
...group of second-year students-in a letter to Ebert that will appear in tomorrow's CRIMSON-claims there is a basic conflict of interest between Ebert's role as a corporation director and his responsibility to the Medical School...
Ptashne outlined to the crowd of about 100 what he understood to be the basic strategy of the Faculty meeting. "It firstseemed logical that they would either let the Mendelsohn motion through since it was so weak and then recess or else recess immediately," he said. "Instead they amended Mendelsohn's motion so that it was apolitical...
Still, perhaps one a year it inadvertently reveals what we need to see and hear. One example which Arlen describes was the irony of a Vietnam special by CBS newsman Morley Safer. As Westmoreland asks about basic training and remarks about the high morale, a soldier tells Safer that he dislikes riding down people's gardens. Safer then routinely asks him about the war. The soldier looks melancholy (did we see it?) and then, in one of those moments when everything comes alive in a gesture, tells Safer passionately: "The country's so beautiful, fertile, and everything...