Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patient Resistance. "The idea was mine," said Douglas, a pacifist in the early 1930s who saw heavy combat in his 50s in World War II as a Marine officer. Disturbed that the Viet Nam debate was dominated by "extremists on both sides," he began writing friends last summer, incorporated the committee on July 31, and helped to draft a policy statement that was edited in longhand by Eisenhower...
...idea of denying access to private facilities to persons who are involved in disfavored activities...
...recent sit-in and the ensuing student demands seem to me to be a contradiction of the sponsoring organization's name, Students for a Democratic Society. I, for one, resent the idea that a minority should tell me whether or not I can see a recruiter from Dow Chemical, the CIA, or the military. It is certainly within any group's rights to stage a peaceful demonstration for the purpose of bringing to attention the record of a recruiter such as Dow Chemical. But it should be the individual's choice as to whether he still wants to be interviewed...
...additional signatures would allow the state's voters in 1968 to direct the Secretary of State to place the question of a Convention on the ballot in 1971. And even then, the voters could reject the idea...
...subjects' lives. In this way they were perhaps following the lead of the fine television series based on John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. The scripts will win no literary prizes, but they do incorporate a good deal of historically accurate information and also manage to convey an idea of their characters' personalities...