Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minorities, at our expense? We have inflation because Congress insists on spending, spending, spending, to gratify special interests. We have billion-dollar mountains of farm surplus because that woos the farm groups. The Solons are afraid to curb the corruption of labor leaders because they control votes. Firm civil rights legislation can and would be talked to death by minority filibustering...
...Anderson was a staunch advocate of flexible farm supports, has stuck steadfastly to that position ever since, won the gratitude of the Eisenhower Administration for his support of Ezra Taft Benson. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Anderson stands in the front ranks of Democratic liberals working for civil rights legislation, has chaired the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy in 1955, 1956 and 1959 (the committee's chairmanship alternates between the House and the Senate...
Michel de Montagine, living in a France racked by sanguinary religious and civil war, wrote with a tolerance rare for his day: "It is setting a very high price on one's conjectures to burn a man alive for them. The skeptical Catholic would probably be delighted at the temper which prevails on the Harvard faculty today; for even the most convinced believers sharply divorce teaching from proselytizing, much less contemplating coercion by brand and faggot...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, introduces freshmen and upper-classmen to the various doctrines of philosophy in Philosophy 1. For the freshman, especially one who comes from a relatively sheltered religious background, the introduction to such thinkers as Spinoza and Hume may prove novel and disquieting. Demos admits some students may be shaken by an introduction to skepticism...
Murder & Miscegenation. Though this is a Civil War novel, all the fighting takes place offstage, and the Yankee invaders are vehemently discussed but never seen. As the fortunes of the South decline, John Bottomley whips his jaded horse into a final gallop that gets him back to Pompey's Head for a last big scene in which he accepts a dying Negro as his illegitimate half-uncle and watches the family mansion burn to the ground, consuming Villain Monckton in the process. Penniless, but at last united in wedlock. John and Arabella are prepared to face together the perils...