Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...document had the odd quality of pleasing just about everyone on the Western side. Paris' leftist Combat nicknamed it "La Note Dior," because it was short and had style. Le Monde applauded the absence of "polemics, which give the Soviets the nourishment they need for their propaganda." In Germany, giving his approval, Konrad Adenauer said that it was he who suggested writing the note. And, though it was nicely timed to give Adenauer a last-minute boost for the Western German elections (see below), Adenauer's political enemies, the German Socialists, said they liked...
...emotions of human beings (as distinct from the motions of gall wasps). Kinsey can record only overt acts, or the memories of them plus a few mental attitudes of which his subjects are sufficiently aware to tell him In the female volume, which he calls a far more human document than its predecessor, he does his best to explore the psychological factors in sex. But he can only check off emotions; he cannot measure them. He cannot detect (and this is where his kinship to Freud ends) emotional factors buried deep in the unconscious, or religious and ethical concepts which...
...Mayock's fee would go to the party coffers. But Mayock said that his contact with Snyder was "political." And a former BIR official testified that in sending down the special ruling, General Counsel Charles Oliphant (a headliner in Tax Scandals of 1951-52) wrote on the document: "This approval applies only in this case." That seemed to make the decision not a mere speed-up but an instance of special treatment. It looked as though the newest Scandals might have a long...
...Endorsed (but not ratified) the Genocide Convention. Setting out to make mass murder an international crime (and it was a crime, whatever the U.N. might say or not say), a U.N. commission ended up with a complex document defining "genocide" to include "causing . . . mental harm" to members of "a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Under such a far-afield provision, expressions of honest opinion might become crimes...
...Helped draft a U.N. Covenant of Human Rights. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was for two years chairman of the drafting commission, but the influence of delegates from the Soviet Union and other dictatorships is apparent in the document. The covenant dilutes such natural rights as freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly by mixing them with highly dubious "rights." Some of these "rights" would enlarge government powers instead of restricting them. According to the covenant, for example, the state is obliged to see to such things as "healthy development of the child" and "environmental hygiene" and "the right of everyone...