Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although many freshman objected to the idea of a mandatory meeting, most thought the discussions were interesting and relevant...
...interesting that in the area of foreign affairs, the idea that Republican congressmen and senators are sources of essentially support for moderate courses is much more read...
...American liberals... presided over the onset both of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American cities. These things may not be our fault, but... they most surely must be judged our doing." ily accepted. It is time the idea became more familiar in domestic matters. It is pleasant to hear the New Left declare that the white liberal is the true enemy because it is he who keeps the present system going by limiting its excesses, but it is more the informed conservatives who perform that function--the Robert Tafts of the nation--and at the present juncture...
...scientist who is closer to the pertinent field put it in less provocative terms. "The idea that human races differ in adaptively significant traits is emotionally repugnant to some people," wrote Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky in Mankind Evolving. "Any inquiry into this matter is felt to be dangerous, lest it vindicate race prejudice." Undeniably, racial prejudice is social or cultural in origin rather than biological, and it is understandable that anthropologists, who hesitate to make value judgments on the basis of biological fact, would hesitate also to enter what is fundamentally a sociological-and highly emotional-controversy. Anthropologist Morton Fried says...
...deferment screws were also tightened upon the national service organizations like the Peace Corps, VISTA, and the Teacher Corps. The National Security Council will probably classify them as essential to the national interest since McNamara and General Hershey both favor the idea and the other Council members are Administration officials not anxious to kill Great Society programs. But even if national service volunteers (mostly college graduates) receive occupational deferments for the duration of their national service, under the new law they can expect to incur maximum liability to the draft when they complete their term--even if they are over...