Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballot box, the London Bureau weighed in 48 hours before the polls opened with a firm judgment that Labor's Harold Wilson would win. In New York, the WORLD staff was inclined to agree, but with knowledge born of experience remained flexible and ready for a narrow victory by either side. It turned out to be a week when flexibility, always the journalist's best stance amid breaking news, was nothing less than a critical necessity...
...President's two daughters are to blame for his relatively narrow margin...
...sees the Court as a "national schoolmaster." During last term's sit-in cases (set aside on narrow grounds), Goldberg argued that the 14th Amendment bans private racial discrimination in public accommodations. Not so, snapped Black. In the absence of state-enforced segregation or valid federal law, said Black, the 14th Amendment "does not compel either a black man or a white man running his own private business to trade with anyone else against his will." And he added: "The worst citizen no less than the best is entitled to equal protection of the laws of his state...
...first important dissent in favor of a big corporation, inciting T. R. to snarl that the new Justice had less backbone than a banana. The early fruits of Black's appointment were equally bitter. Choleric ex-NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson denounced him as "a born witch burner -narrow, prejudiced, class-conscious." Not only did the New York Herald Tribune storm that he had "not the slightest qualification," but newsmen soon discovered that he had once been a Ku Klux Klansman. Black took to the radio to announce that he had indeed been a Klansman for a short time, added...
...fallen into increasing disarray since it had been proposed in 1945. In a college which views a liberal arts education as two-pronged, general and departmental, it was clearly the role of the college (through the Committee on General Education) to give students an antidote for the pressures of narrow specialization and premature professionalism. But, although there has always been broad agreement on the need for a nondepartmental program, what that program would do has never been precisely clear...