Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even as it has burgeoned, the far right has wrought its strong counter-reactions. Its "superpatriotism" has recently come in for strong criticism from President Kennedy and former President Eisenhower, from Vice President Johnson and former Vice President Nixon, and from leaders of Roman Catholic, Protes tant and Jewish churches. American Motors Chairman George Romney, a conservative who is considering running next year as Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan, recently shook up a meeting of the All-American Society in Salt Lake City by telling the audience: "Infiltration of Communism is not the greatest problem facing our country...
...core concept, however, was necessary if Harvard's program was to be consistent with the underlying philosophy of the report. The Committee saw a need for "general education," then a newly coined phrase, to counter a growing sociological fragmentation, parallel to the academic fragmentation imposed by the demands of departmental specialization. The overall rationale of the core concept was to offset specialization not only in the academic context, but, if backed by programs in enough educational institutions, in the sociological framework as well. It was to do this by acquainting the members of the report's "Free Society" with their...
...insisted, the U.S. has little choice but to move toward freer trade. "We have been the evangelists of the virtues of free competition. We have preached this gospel incessantly to our European friends." Should the U.S. surrender to protectionism, "we would set off a chain reaction of retaliation and counter-retaliation that would do irreparable harm to the whole Free World, but would hurt us most...
During the proposed vigil, the Harvard group plans to sit quietly in the Yard, answering questions and distributing leaflets, while their Brandeis counter-parts take to the Waltham streets in a similar effort urging housewives, students, and other interested citizens to write letters of protest to Congressmen and to government officials of both the Soviet Union and the United States...
...After seeking to wash away the taint of his 82-day imprisonment with five successive hot baths, the longtime West Coast gambling czar flew home to his Carousel ice cream parlor in suburban Los Angeles and, as a pair of conspicuously inconspicuous plainclothesmen crunched cones at the counter, proceeded to stake out the future. Top items on the agenda: a call on his aging mother, a thank-you note to Justice Douglas, and a reunion with his showgirl friend, Sandy Hagen, 22. Insisted Mickey, for all the world as though he had beaten the rap: "I'm going...