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This latent conservative strength raises two questions: Will the moderates be willing and able to challenge conservatives at the local level? And, to the extent that conservative strength remains, who will inherit...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: A White Elephant? | 11/10/1964 | See Source »

...Moreover, McCormack's defeat would require the election of a new Speaker, undoubtedly increasing the influence of forces which both he and Day oppose. Either Carl Albert, an ultra-conservative from Oklahoma, or Hale Boggs of Louisiana, who is limited by the demands of a conservative constituency, would probably inherit the position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCormack for Congress | 10/31/1964 | See Source »

...learning the strength, or weakness, of the case against his client, offered the deal that did the police's work for them. "It was half a loaf or nothing," insisted Prosecutor Richard Gerstein. "In addition, the one who initiated the murder was killing his own parents and would inherit their estate if not convicted of murder." Unless Worthington now cops out, Gerstein must, of course, still persuade a jury that he is guilty. As for Confessed Murderer Gebhardt, he says with all due solemnity: "I know that my conscience will never be clear, and I will dedicate the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: How to Beat a Murder Rap | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...where previously separated phenomena may now come together. The extremes will remain: a broadly conceived survey of Western history stressing economic phenomena should be no less welcome than a course in drama and the epic. Both examine vital aspects of our civilization's development and of the culture we inherit from that development. But we hope that the middle area, where literature and art, ideas and beliefs, may be analyzed in conjunction with social and political phenomena, will come alive and be the subject of experimentation in course offerings just as it has been the subject of scholarly investigation....Though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From the Doty Committee Report | 5/27/1964 | See Source »

American intellectuals, whether liberals or conservatives, scientists or creative artists, fell hard for Social Darwinism. Wrote Jack London, the friend of the masses: "Socialism is devised so as to give more strength to these certain kindred favored races so that they may survive and inherit the earth to the extinction of the lesser, weaker races." Theodore Roosevelt declared: "The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." Poet-Essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes described the Indians as a "sketch in red crayons of a rudimental manhood. The white man hunts him down like the wild beasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intellectuals As Racists | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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