Word: originalism
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...vacillated from time to time. The vicious cycle of assassination, execution, and reprisal killings is not likely to be interrupted by American intervention. Despite the constant efforts of Idaho's Secretary of State Pete Cenasurra, and U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada the only two American legislators of Basque origin, little headway can be expected in the battle to convince Congress that the autonomy of the Basque lands is more important than the maintenance of American military bases on Spanish soil. Those who would seem the most likely advocates of intervention, Basque-Americans with relatives still in the homeland...
Controversy has centered on Shockley in past years because of Shockley's stance that differences in intelligence are primarily genetic in origin, and because he has advocated a voluntary sterilization program for individuals with low intelligence quotas...
...Communist appeal in the Third World is not due to their own merit. Nondemocratic forms are gaining. Much of the world has its origin in some form of revolution. On the whole, revolutionaries don't make revolution in order to give up power after they have seized it. Therefore, in many parts of the world, there is a tendency toward totalitarianism simply because the generation that seized power did not go through all that suffering in order to yield it. Our revolution was very peculiar, [since] it was made by people who knew who they were to begin with...
...origin of this smell, needless to say, is those four little words which will someday be engraved in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, the infamous expression KEEP YOUR...
Rebel Without A Cause. The fount and origin of the James Dean legend. Brando'll seem like a poor parody once you've seen this. Watch out for the famous parent-child argument...