Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The City liberals are unusually articulate people, and they have long understood the tremendous power of their political leverage. Recently they have become increasingly finicky about supporting Democrats, and fickle in their preferences. For example, two years ago they were the shrillest opponents of Robert Kennedy, and today they like...
Tireless as proselytizers and tiresome as preachers, Jehovah's Witnesses often make more enemies than converts. Currently, the made-in-America sect is facing a high degree of hostility in Greece. The Witnesses' doctrinal refusal to bear arms defies Greece's universal-conscription law, which has no...
Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba has long been the Arab world's loudest cham pion of women's rights. In 1956, when Tunisia won its independence, Bourguiba abolished polygamy, made it harder for men to get divorces, and gave women their first, real legal rights. He looked on...
Though some right-wingers condemn gun controls as a Communist plot to disarm Americans, a more common objection is that individual Americans have "a constitutional right to bear arms." Actually, no such absolute right exists. The Supreme Court has held consistently that the right is a collective one. State militias...
The objection was one sign of the extent to which the conference is likely to be dominated by a discussion of the relations between rich and poor nations, a topic formally on the agenda.