Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear legal yardstick on which to decide censorship cases, and their determinations will reflect their own sensibilities more than the dictates of the law. Convictions will become even even more capricious than Ginzberg's. Defense attorneys will be unable to prepare their cases because they will not know which criteria the judge will employ. The Supreme Court should be clarifying the law, but in last week's decisions, it only scrambled it. The decisions have gone a long way toward confirming doubts about a court's ability to censor what the public reads and sees...
...good deal of the Committee's already-limited time was consumed in transforming the Faculty's mandate into a concrete, concisely stated requirement. Wilcox had difficulty requesting faculty members to give Gen Ed courses until the program was complete, and he had a definite set of criteria for new offerings...
Meanwhile, OEO announced that new criteria for anti-poverty personnel specifically bar persons showing "disloyalty" to the U.S. and those "recently convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude"-a tacit admission that complaints about loose hiring practices (and loose-living workers) had some validity. Then, part of a confidential report by the Powell committee staff that criticized some OEO projects was obtained by the New York Post. The published news story depicted serious troubles at a Job Corps center at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer. An OEO spokesman responded that Kilmer is "one of our better camps," adding lamely...
According to the law, one of the criteria for this determination is "the extent to which the positions taken or advanced by it from time on matters of policy do not deviate from those of any communist-action organizations, communist foreign governments, or the world communist movement." Penalties are heavy: Failure to register amounts to a fine of $10,000 for each day after the registration order...
...apply for membership in the United Nations, where their equal voting power with such big nations as the U.S. and Russia has caused a whole new set of problems. This incongruous situation has moved Secretary-General U Thant to suggest that perhaps the U.N. might want to reconsider its criteria for admission in view of what he tactfully called "the recent phenomenon of the emergence of exceptionally small new states." Former U.N. official and Columbia University Dean Andrew Cordier puts it much more bluntly: "The concept of nationhood will be extended to absurdity," he says, if what he calls...