Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...myself," said Capitalist Masani, "hold the view that the country that gives a grant or loan has a right to attach conditions which in its opinion make for honest, efficient and productive use of the assistance. On the other hand, there should be nothing done that appears to question the right of a country democratically to determine the structure of its own industry or economy. Any suggestion that an attempt is made to export a country's economic philosophy is one that needs to be scrupulously eschewed...
...people of the world must use the force of public opinion to make world leaders negotiate on a basis of peace," Helen Gahagan Douglas said last night in the Harvard Freedom Council's ceremonies commemorating the first anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, "and we Americans must educate them to do this...
Unofficial segregation is nothing new. But in its attempt to do something about it this year, the New York municipal government has been caught in a vise of public opinion. William Jansen, Superintendent of Schools, has been pressured on one side by the parents of "segregated" pupils, and on the other by the Teachers' Guild. Last month 150 teachers quit rather than teach in "difficult schools." Jansen called for volunteer replacements from New York's 40,000-man school staff...
...Common opinion stipulates three major functions of criminal punishment: deterrence, retribution, and reformation. Those who favor retention of the death penalty rely most heavily on the first of these, and it is primarily on this ground that they must be refuted...
...Forgotten Man. It is a plain tale with an ancient theme. A young schoolmaster, Dmitri Lopatkin. invents a machine for making drainpipes. He sends the drawing of his new centrifugal pipe-casting machine to the responsible bureau, receives friendly encouragement and has his project submitted to "expert" opinion. Promptly things start going wrong. Lopatkin, who has given up schoolteaching and is now wholly dedicated to the cause of drainpipery, falls victim to a mysterious bureaucratic runaround. Months and years pass in a silence punctuated only by official notifications: "It is not considered possible . . ." "Your complaint has been forwarded to . . ." Occasionally...