Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Petty patronage has, in fact, become almost a regular element of Federal hiring procedures. Political patronage is dispensed chiefly through Senators and Congressmen, with the party in office naturally distributing the bulk of the prizes. Less familiar, bureaucratic nepotism guarantees positions to job-seekers with pull--influential friends in the government. This abuse annually accounts for thousands of summer appointments...
...individuals student interest to political questions, injured in some way by the shift of This is a shift which NSA seems intent upon furthering. Student body presidents and fraternity people, consciously or unconsciously, often wish more attention were given to campus problems. For the campus is their element. But at the same time there does appear to have been a more fundamental change in student attitudes that has brought about the increase in this kind of criticism...
...century, a distinctive American nationalism. His declaration that the 'life and soul' of true union is neither interest nor mutual prosperity but 'love of the brethren' controlled, for an equal span of years, the prevailing American definition of patriotism." They go on to show the persistence of this element of the errand, the drive toward American union, in men like Whitman and Lincoln...
...Tigar plays the warrior's neighbor--an old fishwife of a man--and he is in his element. His senile craftiness is equalled only by his engagingly simpleminded delight in the machinations of others...
...common element in all these statements is their political conservatism: the Congress, the international monetary system, the Hickenlooper Amendment, the too-delicate nature of population control, are taken as they are, as given, unchangeable. Not that the report does not suggest changes, but even when it does, either no reasons are given for them, or no indications of how they might be brought about. "The Committee regards Africa as an area where the Western European countries should logically bear most of the aid burden." How easy it is to "regard Africa", so much easier than finding means to convince Europe...