Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Humphrey stated he did not "condemn any past decisions of Presidents," by his proposals, some of which are in direct conflict with President Johnson's views, he became the first Vice-President in modern history to break with a President publicly on an issue of major importance...
...about what he's talking about it's incomprehensible. this can be irritating and insulting: "Being for McCarthy is not being for a democratic community; it's a barrier of ideology. That's what Deitrich (the German speaker) and I faced tonight. It's what we've got to break through...
This fall, many reformers are still waiting for the wave to break. In its own quiet way, the Ed School has begun a genuine program of change. But as Sizer puts it, "it's not revision, it's evolution." The Ed School's upheaval subsided in the face of some very old problems: the need to balance action programs with academic inquiry, and lack of money...
...history of desegregating schools is short and it is unpleasant. For each progressive step, there seem to be two steps back. In 1954, after 60 years of Supreme Court decisions allowing the dual school systems in the South, Earl Warren's court finally made the break. Warren's decision had two memorable bits of language: the first, now reverently recited by civil rights lawyers, is that "separate schools are inherently in equal." That was good. But the other phrase almost negated the decision's value...
Though The Immortal Story is a French production, it, too, boasts an American director, the prodigious Orson Welles, adapting an Isak Dinesen anecdote. The works of the Scandinavian taleteller resemble rows of icicles, gelid, brittle and pure. To bend them is to break them; to lend them warmth is to make them lose their integrity. Even Welles has been unable to fashion more than a laborious, misshapen exercise. The reasons are obvious. This is his first film in color-an inappropriate mode for a fiction written in etched, formal prose, devoid of the sensual palette. Secondly, because the movie...