Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Object: Delay. On Capitol Hill the outcry was immediate and immense. A flood of bills and resolutions dropped into the hoppers. All were designed to blunt the Supreme Court's ruling, and some proposed smothering the ruling altogether by amending the U.S. Constitution to deny the federal courts the right to rule on such matters...
...object, therefore, was to delay implementation of any reapportionment schemes until such time as the Congress and the states could effect a constitutional amendment barring jurisdiction of the federal courts. To this end, Ev Dirksen filed a rider onto the foreign aid bill. It was a shrewd move: President Johnson could ill afford to veto foreign aid just to kill an obnoxious amendment. Dirksen's proposal required that federal courts, "in the absence of unusual circumstances," automatically grant stays in reapportionment cases if so much as one citizen in an affected state requested it. To Senate liberals and Administration...
...would have to face. I knew that I was putting myself in a position in which I was going to be attacked by the partisan press of international Communism. I knew that they were going to try to demoralize me politically. I even thought that I would be the object of personal criticism by my enemies. However, I never imagined that my political attitude would be used to injure the memory of my parents. I consider that it is not worth the trouble to start a polemic, since the struggle that all Cubans have ahead of them does not permit...
They certainly belong together. Choreographer Merce Cunningham believes that all movement is dance. Composer John Cage insists that all sound is music. Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg thinks "every object is as good as every other object." But could they belong to derrière-garde London? After presenting 15 ballets in six performances at Sadler's Wells, the triarchy established itself as the most explosive event in British ballet since Martha Graham's London debut in 1954. At week's end the company had proved such a surprise smash that it transferred to another theater...
...course, only a few of the more acute spectators will be aware of anti-poverty's potential weaknesses. Few will know or care about the veto power given to the governors who object to integrated projects, will realize that this could cripple the program where it could do the greatest good--in the South. Few will know or care about the loyalty oath requirement which tramples the civil liberties of those who participate in the program...