Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such fighting words echoed through the snow-covered hills and hollows of coal country last week. Increasingly the miners were taking aim at Carter; they had voted for him, and now they felt betrayed. In a bar by the deserted railroad tracks in West Frankfort, Ill., a group of miners...
Morris and Burns argue that there has been a dearth of constitutional study over the past two decades. As a result, the nation had to pick "piecemeal" through the Constitution during Viet Nam and Watergate while debating issues like impeachment and executive privilege.
To Richard Morris, 73, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia, America's razzle-dazzle Bicentennial celebration was a disgrace. "We ended up with a lot of gimmickry, pageantry and tall ships-nothing to do with why the American Revolution was unique," charges Morris. His colleague, James MacGregor Burns...
The two professors, former presidents of the American Historical Association (Morris) and the American Political Science Association (Burns), decided to redress the historical slight. They dreamed up Project 87 to celebrate America's next Bicentennial, that of the Constitution's adoption, with a cerebral, nine-year program sponsored...
A second phase beginning in three years will seek to spice up high school and college government courses-now "parched and superficial," says Morris -often by using public TV innovatively. The final three-year stage will take the Constitution to the people, again using TV and town meeting-type discussions...