Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young Democrat from Massachusetts with senatorial ambitions: Ask not what you can do for your brother; ask what your brother...
...TIME reader of some 14 years and a Democrat for about the same period, may I say I am just a bit weary of tiresome Republican readers who pester us so mercilessly with petty little anti-intellectual, xenophobic notes about Mr. Kennedy. He is a damn fine President, and everybody knows it, including his objective critics. I shall, of course, laugh all the way to the polls in '64. A landslide should prove especially delightful this time around...
Although his father was a onetime Chicago alderman. Illinois Democrat Otto Kerner, 53, never really developed much stomach for rough-and-tumble politics. "I've never been a ward leader or a county leader, and I'm not interested." he says. Elected Governor in 1960 on his record as a Cook County judge. Kerner began putting off state problems by appointing committees to study them. This summer his procrastination has come home to plague him: Illinois is in the worst fiscal mess since the Depression...
...Favor of Jesting. Even in Poland, Marxist writers tolerate other opinions and even incorporate them into their own works. A young philosophy professor, Leszek Kolakowski, who was once a dedicated Stalinist, now talks more like a democrat. The leader of the 1956 intellectuals' revolt, he was singled out for attack by Gomulka for carrying "revisionism" too far, though he is still allowed to teach at the University of Warsaw. In his essay, The Priest and the Jester, Kolakowski compares a philosophy of absolutes to the priest in history, a philosophy of skepticism to the jester. Between them there...
...Teaching Machines. Liberal Democrat Ralph Richardson, 43, a U.C.L.A. English professor and president of the Los Angeles school board, flew his own plane all over the state to argue for a program of team teaching, smaller classes, summer schools, teaching machines. Opposing excesses of discipline that would turn the schools into "penal institutions," Richardson argued that California's teaching of the basics, especially English, could be systematically upgraded "without wasting energy in name calling or labels about 'progressive education' or the 'three R's.' " He got well-organized support from liberals and labor...