Word: difference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychological coercion is by no means manifest"; on the basis of the record, the state authorities did nothing more serious in their handling of the case than "offend some fastidious squeamishness or private sentimentalism about combating crime too energetically." In any case, wrote Harlan, since reasonable men could differ on whether Fikes's constitutional rights had been violated, "due regard for the division between state and federal functions in the administration of criminal justice requires that we let Alabama's judgment stand...
...Government was not slow to accept Conant's offer. By the fall of 1942 over 3,000 Armed Forces personnel were already taking courses at the University. As the number of civilian students continued to decline, it became increasingly clear that a wartime Harvard education was going to differ markedly in its external trappings, if not in its scholastic content, from that offered in peacetime...
Macbeth did not strikingly differ as a production from the Old Vic's competent, rather than brilliant, Richard II and Romeo and Juliet. But it so much more powerfully reverberated as a play as to offer greater rewards. And much of its strength lay in what had been the earlier productions' weakness-the title roles: despite limitations, Macbeth and his lady made a striking pair...
...example of interracial brotherhood in their daily lives, but declined, by a vote of 340 to 159, to endorse a proposal hailing the Supreme Court's ban on segregation in the public schools as being "in harmony with Christian convictions," because the church had no right to "differ with or support" the court, which acts, they maintained, purely on legal principles. By this decision, which President Franklin Clark Fry formally opposed, the group becomes the first major U.S. religious body so far to withhold its blessing from the court's ruling...
...term of five years, and to continue collecting millions of dollars a year from the rest of the industry." Many TV men, on the other hand, point out that RCA is doing more than the rest of the industry combined to get color out of the red. But few differ with McDonald's conclusion: "Color TV has been slow to take hold for the simple reason that our industry has not yet produced a good enough color picture to make people want to pay the extra price...