Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy for an American to be-little the way of life of the Haitian peasantry, to despair the poverty, and to dismiss the country as a fascist dictatorship. But most Haitians would dismiss the American dream with equal ease and with possibly more justification. For what, after all, is progress, when Americans flounder in their affluence and persist in the path of war, racism, and riot...
Have a lot of people underestimated George C. Wallace? His adroit performance last week left even the skeptics concerned about his effect on the 1968 election. "If you dismiss him out of hand as a clown in an Uncle Sam suit," said Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "you make a grievous error. He is a tough, competent, shrewd politician who has support within the guts of the American electorate-the low income white voters...
...prose style of Harvard's course catalogue can make a literate student pretty drowsy. Most programs are chosen by word of mouth, and among those students who plow regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith...
...Cambridge School Committee Tuesday night slashed the budget of the committee of Ed School deans created to help search for a new superintendent, and threatened to dismiss the advisory group before it can make any recommendations...
...lawyers saw the case as a chance for the court to tell more about how far agitators can go in potential riot situations before the First Amendment free-speech guarantee fades into the shouting-fire-in-a-crowded-theater category. But the court ducked the chance, choosing instead to dismiss Epton's appeal in an unsigned order. The order might be interpreted as meaning that such haranguing can very easily become criminal and that the Rap Browns can be prosecuted without constitutional objection. But it might not. For in cases involving concurrent sentences, the court has traditionally allowed...