Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Lacey explained that in the absence of strong student opinion on the issue the Administration feels that "there is no immediate reason for jumping right in and doing something." However, she reasserted that the question of extending membership rights to Radcliffe merits "careful consideration," a statement which she made in her most recent annual report...
This strategy need not succeed. Since the Supreme Court school decision, public opinion against discriminatory practice in the rest of the country has risen almost as strongly, if more quietly, as that of the South in defense of its long-established customs. As witnessed in the letters Brownell cited, people are no longer willing to live and let civil rights infringements live. President Eisenhower, a popular leader, should use whatever influence he still has with Congress, if necessary, appealing to the nation...
...Rayburn was timed in the full realization that President Eisenhower was far from being the only Government official going on vacation. By demonstrating that the President was willing to meet Congress at least part way in its budget-cutting efforts, the letter was a shrewd appeal to the public opinion that Congress both generates and venerates. And no one knew better than Ike that the members of the 85th Congress were using the Easter holidays to head for home to feel the popular pulse...
...Britain must have a sound economic base on which to build its forces, or in the long run it is not an effective partner . . . Now, while we are disappointed to see in this coming year 13,500 [British] men taken out of Europe, still it does not, in our opinion, obviate the necessity for a shield ... in Western Europe. And certainly," said Ike, taking oblique note of German talk of cutting NATO commitments (see FOREIGN NEWS), "the compromise plan that was adopted and the phasing out of these people was in order to give the Germans an opportunity to fill...
...Americans said they felt that it is increasing; 52% of the Britons said they felt that it is decreasing. In the U.S. 81% look to religion as something that can answer "most of today's problems"; only 46% of the Britons polled were of the same opinion, while 27% dismissed religion as old-fashioned (as opposed...