Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of how at least 1,200 people died and entire blocks of Manhattan were devastated during the 1863 antidraft riots by Irish immigrants who refused to fight in the Civil...
...placating Southerners on certain sensitive issues. The Miami Herald managed to get a tape recorder into one of the private sessions (see THE PRESS). In the transcript it printed later, which Nixon's spokesmen did not knock down, he explained his public support of this year's open-housing civil rights bill as a matter of political tactics rather than conviction. "I felt then and I feel now," said the transcript, "that conditions are different in different parts of the country." But he wanted the issue "out of our sight" so as not to divide the party and risk...
...chances in November had been caused by the scuffle. Initially, Nixon was forced on the defensive, arguing that Agnew was an "underrated man." Agnew's own acceptance speech was short and almost humble in tone. Later Agnew complained that he was being unfairly tagged as an opponent of civil rights merely because he opposed civil disobedience...
Demos, who taught at Harvard from 1919 to 1962, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Policy, emeritus. For many years, he taught a lower-level course in "Philosophy from Plato to William James." He was editor of "Complete Works of Plato" in 1936, and author of "The Philosophy of Plato...
Agnew, who was elected Governor in 1966, has said often that he basically agrees with President Johnson's Vietnam policy. In his acceptance speech last night, he said "Anarchy ,rioting, or even civil disobedience has no constructive purpose in a constitutional republic." In the prepared text, "civil disobedience" was preceded by two words which the governor failed to deliver: "currently stylish...