Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal Failures. Another troublesome topic was the issue of federal-state relations, which has become one of the basic problems in the structure of U.S. society. One critic of the Great Society was Michigan's Romney, who made a somewhat oblique attack on Johnson-style federalism: "The people feel the stifling consequences of overcentralization, conformity, manipulated consensus and an arbitrary unchecked power." Romney, who clearly sees this as a major issue in the 1968 election, last week released one of his key aides, Dr. Walter De Vries, to work full time on his embryonic presidential campaign. Said the Governor...
Mary Garden went on to become one of the most celebrated divas of all time, bringing to the stage a radiance and mystery that, as one critic wrote, "made young men dream and old men think of adventures they never had." Her career spanned three decades, and when she died last week of pneumonia at 92, there were none who could dispute her proud litany: "I began at the top. I stayed at the top. I left...
...heap of moral garbage. The film as a result made a certain stink at this year's film festivals. At Venice it was banned from public showing, at San Francisco it was berated as "pornography for profit." The statement was made by Shirley Temple, a critic with rather frivolous credentials, but it is essentially correct...
Carlos Lacerda is a Brazilian liberal democrat, a leading contender for the presidency of his country., and an articulate critic of military authoritarianism...
Readers will lay down this civilized book only reluctantly. And they will say, as Critic Cyril Connolly did when he learned that there will be two more Nicolson volumes to follow: "Come on-where's the rest? Hand it over...