Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assumptions co-exist, rather awkwardly, in the General's mind. There is first an optimistic postulate according to which the French nation, underneath all its divisions, still possesses a dormant general will which could be aroused by a dynamic and stable government. There is also the pessimistic idea that the divisions of the electorate are here to stay, that no constitutional trickery could erase them, and consequently that the Executive will be strong only if it is removed from intimate contact with an electorate and a Parliament which remain unable to produce a coherent majority...
Similarly, three hundred years ago, Richelieu had warned his King that only a monarchical strait-jacket could keep together a fickle and undisciplined nation. In de Gaulle's constitution, the President of the Republic, elected by a College of about 75,000 citizens (including Parliament and delegates of France's territorial subdivisions), will ensure "the regular operation of France's institutions" and guarantee "the continuity of the State...
...longer would they be obliged to undertake the annual pilgrimage to the nation's capital to meet formally and informally with students from colleges throughout the country. Harvard's problems, Marc Leland, President of the Council, explained, are of a "different" nature from those on other college campuses...
...President Eisenhower and, indeed, the nation, the absence of Mr. Adams from the post he commanded might appear even more of a loss than it might to one ex-presidential assistant. For the President is a verbal leader, albeit an inarticulate one, who filled his homilies and cliches with Mr. Adams' wisdom...
While Roman Catholic McCarty went to church to give thanks for his startling picture, editors around the nation peeled it from Telephoto receivers with mixed reactions. Some newspapers that passed it by-Chicago American, Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram-called it "inflammatory." Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette did not use it, and Editor Harry Ashmore said: "Moving the picture on the wire was inexcusable. The fact is that racial incidents are no higher here than usual, despite the continuing struggle over school desegregation...