Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just and justifiable war and those who have argued that it should be ended at almost any price. In the Senate, Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton attacked both groups for indulging in "verbal overkill" in the debate, warning that "loose talk on the one hand, and deplorable, even illegal behavior on the other, both tend to heighten current misunderstanding and misapprehension." If the war's critics have been less vociferous in recent months, he implied, it is not because they are being silenced by the Administration but by events. "All they've got to do," he said, "is look...
...Adam Clayton Powell as the nation's leading Negro Democratic politician. Now he was asked to join the nine-man committee set up to examine Powell's sins and recommend whether the Harlem leader should be seated. Conyers knew that Congress was in a nasty mood over Powell's behavior -- indignant over Powell's bravado and scared over increasingly widespread feeling that Congress was generally corrupt...
...areas, in the hope of forestalling further attacks. Earlier this month, it ruled out the use of federal funds for "illegal picketing or demonstrations," barred antipoverty workers from "partisan political" activity, and provided that local Job Corps centers must screen out young men who have records of "violent antisocial behavior". It also announced that OEO would emphasize greater state participation and require annual audits of all local antipoverty agencies...
...program. Community Organization, where successful, was bound to lead demonstrations and protest, since associations of the poor would find the normal channels of complaint frustratingly slow and unproductive. The Job Corps was designed explicitly for the "disadvantaged" -- and themost disadvantaged would be precisely those who had records of "antisocial behavior." President Johnson may win time with these concessions, fighting a holding action against critics until he has resources and political support to expand the program. But he is abandoning the strategy that he hailed so confidently in 1964, and returning to the uncoordinated and ineffective administration of welfare and income...
...never changes. Although he professes love for Natascha in the last third of the film, there is no sign of any difference in his wooden personality. Chaplin's treatment of the character forces us to question his capacity for love, and look for other less romantic motives for his behavior...