Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons for objecting to the U.N.'s use of force may not be valid, but they are perfectly clair, and--since they are to be the core of my New Republic piece--you might have tried to mention them. It is a bit too easy to dismiss an opinion which one has not accurately described. What ain't fair ain't American. Stanley Hoffmann, Associate Professor of Govt...
...dismiss opposing viewpoints without giving consideration to what they have to say. True academic freedom is not simply letting others speak, it also consists of listening to what they have to say before we judge them. Richard A. Derham...
After two months delay, police charges that the Club operated without entertainment or victualer's licenses reached the Superior Court yesterday morning. But when police witnesses failed to appear, Judge Andrew Fairhurst announced he would dismiss the case for lack of prosecution...
...most original and challenging address given at the Assembly came from Lutheran Dr. Joseph Sittler, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Before he left for New Delhi, Sittler told a Chicago friend what he had in mind. Christians, he felt, were too much inclined to dismiss Communist ideology as "barren materialism." But Communism "succeeds because it is not materialism. All things are given value and purpose and drawn into a huge vision for the totality of man and the world." In contrast, Christianity has shrunk until it has become little more than "a support...
Critics of group instruction dismiss it as mere gimmickry that de-emphasizes discipline and overlooks outstanding individual talents. When Joan Geilfuss, a Pace student, divided her group classes in Charleston, S.C., into teams to liven things up, traditionalists spoke scornfully of her "piano parties." But Joan could scarcely have cared less. Last year not one of her 35 students dropped out, although the estimated dropout rate for children who take up piano playing in the U.S. is over 30% after the first year...