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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget could stand a $2 billion cut without real damage, told the G.O.P. gathering in Trenton that he had not come there to "shovel smoke," urged them to bury factional differences and unite as "loyal Republicans." Said Adams: "It is inconceivable that loyal Republicanism can be twisted to mean persistent and carping opposition to our party's leader and our party platform. If this should be our course, our party is foredoomed at the polls...
...soon-hopefully by 1959. All wanted immediate "Nigerianization" of the local government before independence. But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed on what independence should mean. Each anxious to be top dog in the government that emerges, Awolowo, Prime Minister of the Yoruba West, and Azikiwe, Prime Minister of the Ibo East moved into town with all the fanfare of hopeful candidates at a U.S. national convention. Each installed a huge staff in a top Mayfair...
...long run 'we strongly recommend that the freshman no longer reside together on the Old Campus, but be integrated into the colleges. This does not mean the abolition of Freshman Year as an academic unit... The intellectual and social benefits received by the freshmen would more than compensate for the loss of the traditional "class spirit" supposedly generated by living together on the Old Campus, but actually growing much later...
...that punishment itself is cruel; 2) "it constitutes a protection for the innocent" -that, according to Hook, is "far from conclusive until we know to what extent ... the guilty profit by it." The fact that in Anglo-American law a man is presumed innocent until proved guilty does not mean that his fellow citizens must abandon their common-sense judgments -"the common sense of the moral tradition of the Western world"-about his actions...
...between Bohemian and Philistine. What is refreshing about them is that the cards never seem stacked on one side or the other. His Philistine realizes that a magic has gone out of his life, that "things were different now. The winged seeds that gyrate down from the trees now mean nothing else but that we must sweep them from the automobile hood because stains on the finish lower the trade-in value." And his bohemian is intelligent enough to recognize and be shamed by his own posing. At the peak of his talkativeness and charm, he "commences to doubt...