Word: crux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crux of the case is this 1959 decision. Justice Brennan--who read the latest dismissal but continued to protest the 1959 precedent--put very precisely the argument against the Court's action: "The record not only fails to reveal any interest of the state sufficient to subordinate appellant's constitutionally protected rights but affirmatively shows that the investigatory objective was the impermissible one of exposure for exposure's sake...
...crux of his philosophy rests on this concept of the life-enhancing work of art. These objects were the noblest achievements of mankind and of the utmost importanced for the attainment of the Good Life. In "Duveen," S.N. Behrman quotes B.B. referring to a painting of Il Salvatore Benedicente owned by the Louvre. It gives an especially arresting example of B.B.'s application of his philosophy to works...
...profound effect of Negro sit-in strikes on the South. S.R.C. considers them "the most important development of 1960." With an impressive number of lunch-counter settlements to their credit, the strikers succeeded "in causing white Southerners to see Negro Southerners as individuals." Such is the crux of the case for school desegregation. "What so many dime stores have acknowledged is what the lawsuits have asked, and still ask, the school systems to practice...
...played, while a tape of recorded instructions controlled the illustrative lights in the model. To the visiting G.P.s, most of whom had given no thought to the brain's anatomy since their first year in medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding as to a layman. Crux of the matter: drugs influence mental function mainly through their effects on two parts of the brain: 1) the primitive midbrain's reticular (little network) formation, and 2) the connections between the thalamus (inner chamber) and the outer cortex (bark), the most sophisticated and evolutional-ly the newest part...