Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment of reflection, the house decided to recall 60 of the bills for separate consideration. But seemingly lost in the stampede were bills dealing with such issues as a crosstown expressway for Chicago, a new election code and no-fault divorce. When one freshman senator objected to the legislature's methods, he was advised by Charles Chew, a black senator from Chicago who happens to be bald: "Boy, you take this thing too seriously. When I first came down here, I was white and had hair...
...this context that the notion of meritocracy comes into play--but not necessarily into focus--in Riesman's account. Almost like the way "law and order" served as code words during the late sixties for those who wanted society to return to its former middle-class virtue, "meritocracy" becomes for Riesman a code for the sorts of policies and arrangements that sustained Harvard as a superior educational and research institution throughout the middle part of the twentieth century...
...musical amnesiac. Gamesplayers, for example, might have their own use for Parsons' manual. What do the following songs have in common: Beautiful Dreamer, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Summertime, Easter Parade, You're the Top, and Yes, We Have No Bananas'? In Parsons' code they all share the opening signature...
...indeed, that he deliberately misled the committee. If [parts of his testimony are to be] characterized as 'justifiable evasion,' it is difficult to perceive what Respondent would consider 'unjustifiable' evasion ... In our view, Respondent has engaged in reprehensible conduct in violation of the Code of Professional Responsibility by testifying dishonestly before a congressional committee. This is conduct which the bar would seriously condemn in the case of any of its members, but particularly so when that member holds a special position of trust with regard to the public and to the profession...
...plea occurs at a particularly convenient time, because angels of every condition have convened in historic Liederkranz Hall on Manhattan's East 58th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, to hammer out a new moral code for human society. The angels cannot understand a relatively new development called "money," which has become the most powerful of humanity's totems. They begin to suspect that the million-dollar lapel grabber and his wife can help...