Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found himself besieged by I) Philadelphia's strong Democratic machine-led by Congressman William J. Green Jr. and City Democratic Leader James Clark-which had been fighting to keep the mayor from announcing for the governor's race, and 2) Pittsburgh's mayor and Democratic Kingmaker David Lawrence, a longtime Dilworth supporter but strictly a hands-off-Red-China hand. At week's end, Dick Dilworth cleared his throat and declared that he does not care to leave Philadelphia, might even want to run again for mayor come...
...David Riesman has pointed out, apologetics as a reaction to this kind of attack is inappropriate; "It surrenders the ethical initiative, for it permits the anti-Semite to frame the issue of debate and the norms of criticism." For to deny the fact that a Jew or a grind can't come up to country-club standards, is to concede the validity of those standards...
Andrew S. Hiken of Wigglesworth Hall and Glencoe, III., was elected chairman of the committee, Richard J. V. C. Pescosolido of Holworthy Hall and Ipswich, Mass., was named secretary, and David C. Campbell of Thayer Hall and Pleasant Ridge, Mich., was named treasurer...
...intelligent bigot is no uncommon phenomenon in American politics. While we have rabble rousers, we also have educated, sometimes almost cultured men whose prejudices unbalance them, and distort their outlook. Father Feeney is one of these, and David Wang, another...
...laugh at David Wang and the weird bunch of "ex-students" who travel with him. Their morals may be suspect, their sincerity and devotion superficial, their sanity questionable. But as representatives of a small, yet persistent minority opinion in America and as symbols of age-old hatreds they are more than amusing, far less than frightening. Wang and his crew are worth remembering, if only as a proof that there are people like that...