Word: biennials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film festivals go, the biennial splash at the baths of Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, seldom causes more than a ripple of interest in the world of cinema. Last week, however, the centuries-old spa-known as Carlsbad when Dostoevsky used to gamble away rubles at the casino, while the crowned heads of Europe took the waters to prolong their reigns-was jammed with film buffs, critics, buyers and distributors from all across Europe and the U.S. None of them had anything more than a peripheral interest in the dreary assortment of 42 films from such ersatz Hollywoods as Mongolia and Tunisia...
...land of Zion that became Utah. Not all of the new religionists went with him. Denouncing Young as a usurper, a little band of Smith's disciples stayed in the Midwest to form the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which last week opened its biennial world conference at its dome-topped headquarters in Independence...
...lengthening of the Congressional term of office will provoke reverberations of the old Jeffersonian belief that frequent elections are the best guarantee against tyranny. But in an age of mass communications and sophisticated means of sampling public opinion, annual or biennial elections are no longer necessary to determine the public will. The gentleman legislators of Jefferson's day could campaign at leisure between brief sessions; today's Congressmen have to steal time from heavy schedules in the capital to campaign strenuously in their districts...
...best thing about biennial Congressional elections is that the House stays responsive to changes in popular opinion on many subjects. It is not unreasonable to ask that the nation have an opportunity to reexamine some decisions every two years, and Congressional elections are the closest thing we have to a national referendum. This year, for example, the people will have some-albeit limited-opportunity to make themselves heard on the Vietnam war through Congressional elections. It is absurd to suggest that the floods of form letters which make up the bulk of Congressional mail adequately represent public opinion...
...Congressman, as President Johnson urges, should be relieved of the financial burden of biennial elections and of the likelihood that he will be in debt to a few contributors. The President should submit proposals immediately to stimulate more small contributions to candidates and to make meaningful Federal regulations governing campaign spending. His attack on the two-year term, however, is misdirected. Let's keep...