Word: electives
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...would mean an improvement in certain aspects but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. It is true, no doubt, that a society cannot remain in an abyss of lawlessness, as is the case in our country. But it is also demeaning for it to elect such mechanical legalistic smoothness as you have. After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by T.V. stupor and by intolerable music...
Epps last week suggested that he might seek alternatives to the present minority plank, possibly through his efforts with the Race Relations Committee. "I wonder what particular problem is being addressed by quotas. If the assumption is that whites would not elect blacks, I question whether that is indeed the case." Epps noted that several blacks have been elected heads of House committees, that the president of the Glee Club this year is black, and that the executive editor of the Harvard Independent this year is black...
...amendment is the latest in a series of efforts to win political independence for the District that was carved out of Maryland and Virginia in 1791. Only in 1961 did Washingtonians finally get the right to vote in presidential elections. In 1971 they were able to elect a nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives, Walter Fauntroy. In 1974 they achieved a degree of home rule with an elected mayor, Walter Washington, and a city council...
POLITICAL WEAKNESS. Although unions did much to elect a Democratic President and Democratic Congress, labor has suffered shattering legislative setbacks. Last year the common-situs bill that would have allowed a single striking union to shut an entire construction site went down to a totally unexpected defeat in the House. Two months ago, the unions lost on a labor-reform bill that they regarded as vital to reverse their decline in membership. The bill, among other things, would have allowed organizers easier access to nonunion shops...
...which by some quirk of the Puritan Ethic lacks signs indicating the names of major streets,but has them for side streets, presumably working on the assumption that if you don;t know the name of the street you're on, you don't deserve to. Members of the elect know; everyone else has to guess. Thank you, John Calvin...