Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before-politics approach that was to lead a decade later to the Common Market, the U.S. helped pave the way to European cooperation. As Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, a founding father of the Common Market, observed at a Brussels anniversary colloquium last week, the U.S. showed "a clearer awareness of what Europe must do to save herself than many Europeans themselves...
...long-range effect of the pass-fail mess, and the underlying problems that caused it, will become clearer next year. Former chairman Trosper is more optimistic than Monro. "People have short memories," he has said, noting that the Faculty might be impressed by the HPC's willingness and ability to rethink a position thoroughly. But aside from prestige, another unfortunate consequence of the year-long hassle with pass-fail was the opportunity cost: the HPC did little else...
...Using objects," she explains, "you can make a clearer statement about reality and illusion. With a painting, all is illusion." However, too much reality is not desirable either, because "today everything is more ambiguous." A case in point is her recent i AM A PACIFIST but . . . WAR-pictures are too BEAUTIFUL, which deals with "the contrast of beauty and destruction, a hidden commentary on war and pacifism." Inscribed within the work, together with tiny, exquisite maps of battle plans and bifurcated nuclear mushrooms, are passages, in German, from letters Mary wrote to her mother in 1943 and 1944. One telling...
...rally support for it. So far he has made no decision. It is clear, however, that whatever arguments Johnson offers will have to be both eloquent and candid if he hopes to sway any appreciable number of dissenters to his side. It is even clearer that he can never hope to win them all over. Nor should he, if it is true that democracy's great self-corrective is reasonable dissent and debate...
After 24 hours' deliberation, the jury reported back "hopelessly deadlocked." Coolly Johnson replied: "There is no reason to assume that the case will ever be submitted to twelve more intelligent, more impartial or more competent men to decide it, or that more or clearer evidence will be produced on one side or the other." He sent them back. After three more hours, the jury reached a verdict: guilty. Johnson sentenced all three Klansmen to the maximum ten years in prison...