Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tenth District in suburban Washington, which is heavily populated by federal employees; they can generally be expected to support a liberal candidate, and they plainly favored Republican Holton over his Byrd-backed opponent. If Holton moderates can resist the temptation to team up with the conservative-segregationist element, the G.O.P. will offer the Byrd machine even more serious challenges in future elections-when, presumably, the Goldwater thing will have faded...
...promote the education of our SDS membership," Booth declared. He believes this political element essential to the creation of a viable organization which will be more than an outlet for personal frustrations and will have a tangible effect on society. He said explicitly that although the autonomy of the chapter organization is a fundamental brick in SDS's foundation, a certain measure of independence must be sacrificed to more important issues; namely, the war. In effect, Booth means that the National Committee must increase its control over its membership before a united front can have an appreciable impact...
Another fault of the new plan is that the individual Houses will probably lose their images, one element of the House system worth preserving. Equal distribution according to Rank List, school background, and field of concentration, with no provision for Masters' and students' choices, may diminish the particular character of each unit...
...liberal racial views, most Virginia Negroes appear reluctant to swing back so soon to the party that ran Barry Goldwater only last year; few black faces were seen among the crowds that heard Holton and Nixon last week. Nonetheless, Holton may gain unexpected strength from a sizable new voting element: the young federal employees and their families who have fanned out across the Potomac to settle in Virginia's Fairfax and Arlington Counties. Many are mobile, highly professional newcomers who have liberal views but consider themselves politically independent; though employed by a Democratic Administration, they may well prefer...
...social reform, Hirschman noted is an essential goal of the Alliance. "If you change one element in the Alliance's equation, it falls to pieces...