Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from final. A key point of the NATO status-of-forces treaty-the basic principles of which now apply by executive agreement to Japan-is that the host nation agrees to give "sympathetic consideration" to requests for waiver in cases which the U.S. deems to be of "particular importance." As this works out, U.S. authorities usually ask allied countries to waive primary jurisdiction and to return American offenders to the mercies of U.S. courts-martial; usually the allies comply. Out of all the 14,394 G.I. offenses subject to foreign jurisdiction last year, the allies turned back 9,614 cases...
...Road-Pickers. In the Du Pont and Jencks cases, many a legal observer could agree with the aims of the Supreme Court's legal idealism while regretting that it was not more firmly anchored in legal realism. For example, such critics, with no particular brief for Du Pont, nonetheless thought that the majority decision had taken a highly selective, hotly debatable set of facts and used them to extend a law dealing with stock "acquisitions" so that it applied to a "reasonable probability" existing 30 years later. And such observers, even while agreeing that Jencks had a case...
...object of all these efforts was the acquisition of a liberal education--an undefined product which has replaced God as a name for what we want but have not got. The pamphlet said that he was being trained to apply general knowledge in particular situations, and President Pusey told him that he was being trained to read books and defend the community of learning against the attacks of antiintellectuals. Unfortunately, nobody told him how or why these things could or should be done. Perhaps that was why, four years later, Rumplestiltskin graduated as puzzled and lost as when...
This narrowness was perhaps inevitable, since every instructors necessarily revelled in the superiority and necessity of his particular approach to life, and felt that his own premises were intuitively obvious consequences of the world order. There were very few men who could see themselves in perspective, and set off the individuality of their disciplines and attitudes against all the alternatives...
...most important of these academic requirements were those established by the departments. These usually mirrored the University policy of knowing something about the whole department and a lot about some particular specialty of that department. The consequence was envisioned in mathematical terms, with knowledge building up from the most general understanding of all fields to the most meticulous understanding of some specialty, a glorious conic section...