Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to its chemistry, the McCarran-Walter Act contains some unpleasant little ideological twists, which, like most "security" measures, put the burden of proof on the "suspected subversive." Liberals have long attacked these clauses as violations of civil liberties and freedom of belief, but the most glaringly unjust and illogical provision of the Act is its core, the national origins quota system...
While in England, Price first became interested in the problems of the civil service career system--a question he was still exploring in a Gov 130 lecture this month. His thesis for the B. Litt. degree was a comparison of the constitutional, administrative, and sociological roles of the British administrative class of civil servant with that of its American counterpart...
...heralded a retreat to the witch-hunting days of the late Senator McCarthy. The reaction to this McCarthy aberration, as expressed in the liberalizing rulings of the Court, did not represent a violent move to an opposite aberration, but a reasoned return to established values of civil and individual liberty...
...decisions of the Supreme Court striking down the illiberal practices which the Bar Association seeks to reinstate were not, as some critics have argued, legalisms based on semantic misinterpretation. They were, on the contrary, reasonable assertions of basic, but long-neglected, civil rights. It is therefore astounding to find the ABA standing with the American Legion and comparable reactionary elements in proposing a return to the days of the witch-hunt and the Red herring...
...Civil War Historian (First Blood) Swanberg calls Fisk "easily the most notorious man in the nation." Probably no tycoon before or since combined so blatantly the related arts of lavish loose living, public fleecing and judicial fixing. "What the Tweed Ring was in government, the Erie Ring was in finance." The twain, interlocked by the expert pincer movements of corrupt judges, sheriffs and countless lawyers, put on a display of operatic chicanery that still makes for breathless reading...