Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questioned by his Christian Democratic opposition. He must have winced last week as that longtime scourge of the Republican right wing, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, during a U.S. Bicentennial ceremony in Frankfurt, lashed out at the Soviet Union. "We find ourselves faced with a new and far more complex form of imperialism, a mixture of czarism and Marxism with colonial appendages," he said. He warned that "a continuing attempt is under way to organize the world into a new empire in which the Soviet sun never sets...
Many Americans accept as a truism Winston Churchill's famous aphorism - "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." But many foreigners - even if - they seem to have feel lived in that the U.S. democracy, for at a least time in its American incarnation, is not right for them...
Harvard's dishonest waiver policy compounds the offense. The Admissions Office routinely sends applicants a form permitting them to cede the right to view their admissions file once they reach Harvard. Despite the implicit pressure on them, only half the applicants waive their rights. Yet all students are then denied access to their admission files...
...justified in enforcing the merit criterion any more than it is justified in enforcing quotas. In a free society people should have the right to voluntarily establish private institutions run on any basis they may choose, as well as the right to hire whom they want, the right to form schools of whatever composition they desire, and the right to offer their productive services as widely or selectively as they wish. An opinion has already been expressed here concerning the principle on which they should base these associations, but if individuals have the right to run their own lives, then...
...your mother tongue, tells a whole people to forget about their language and speak in the language ordained by the bayonet. Someone appoints himself the patron of your throat and tells you your language is filthy, it is no good, speak in mine. Someone forces you to change the form of your throat, jaws and lips, the rhythm of teeth and cheeks, and tells you to imitate his jaws and cheeks and lips and teeth. Oh! Oppressors and tyrants and shahs, my curse...