Word: demolishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loyalty Review Board decided: "On all the evidence, there is a reasonable doubt as to Dr. Peters' loyalty to the Government of the United States." Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments on his appeal; its ruling is expected this month. A decision in his favor could virtually demolish the present federal loyalty program, because the issue in this case goes to the heart of the matter...
...change was only a makeshift. After ten more years, library conditions had once again become intolerable. When the Widener family offered to build a new library. University officials painfully decided to demolish Gore but used some of Gore's granite to help build Widener...
Professor Commager's theme that "everyone ought to dissent from everything for dissension's sake . . , is all a negation, praising liberty because liberty gives opportunity to demolish ancient things, and praising the Academy because the Academy may be utilized as a safe corner from which to dislodge the wisdom of our ancestors...
...Stringed Lute. Not all Wilde epigrams merely amuse. Many cannot be read without an almost haunting sense of familiarity-because so many of the playful paradoxes in which Wilde turned the world upside down have since become realities. Seeing Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, demolish morality in the flick of an opium-scented cigarette, one is unavoidably reminded that, in the 20th century, whole philosophies have been based on brutal versions of elegant sophistries such as his, and whole armies on the philosophies, and whole empires on the armies...
Kaplowitz also unfairly implies that Riesman thinks political apathy should be encouraged as a protection against McCarthyism, whereas he merely cites it as such with no idea of encouraging it. Had Kaplowitz really wanted to demolish Riesman he could have pointed to his advice about making "The America we would like to see in the future . . . What will make America a more interesting and lively place to live in?" Riesman's hopeful view of the American future seems to be that of a spectator at a good three-ring circus...