Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that controlling the investigations is the top problem in the country are just as discontented because people who use the Amendment often face social punishment as onerous as any jail sentence. The great bulk of American opinion lies between these two extremes. It is confused about the existence and extent of any Internal conspiracy, but sick and tired of hearing witnesses say: "I refuse to answer because my answer may tend to incriminate...
...role in the elections of today and next November show his confusion about his duties to his party, as opposed to the nation as a whole. That he owes something to both follows from his double job as national leader and partisan politician, but Eisenhower is wondering about the extent of these interests and how to balance them...
Defenders of photography as a true art form retort that no work of art is possible without, to some extent, copying outside models, or without the intervention of some accident-the chance ray of light on a sitter, the stray bit of dialogue overheard in the street. The photographer uses his artistic imagination by choosing his subject, by lighting and posing it, by emphasizing some details and cutting out others. But photographers are forever haunted by the technical ease with which they can reproduce reality. Almost since photography began, they have been alternating between the "fever of reality" and cold...
...group of over two hundred citizens interested in good government. Though supported to a large extent by Republicans, the NBC is endorsing this year only one member from that party. Oakes, the only NBC-supported candidate to lose in the primary, was also a Republican--qualified for office but still a Republican. Boston voters would have none of this. For the NBC, then, candidate stands on individual issues outweigh party labels...
Twelve years after widespread corruption headed the list of Cambridge election issues and when patronage overshadowed honest qualification as basis for a municipal appointment, the city and the Cambridge Civic Association face another election. To some extent the issue is relatively clear cut, the loss of a CCA majority will bring back a lax government, dominated by self interest and designed to enrich a politically victorious few. But even the CCA has proposed some poor candidates, and voters should not blindly check its entire list of candidates...