Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, whose House Armed Services Committee will write the legislation, at first seemed opposed to the President's program, in particular to the lottery idea, which under present circumstances would become a form of Viet Nam roulette. Rivers had employed his own advisory panel, which flatly rejected any system of random selection, and the chairman apparently differed with the President on other points as well...
Part of the distrust of the law-and of legal doctrine-is explained by the general Chinese dislike of abstraction. The Chinese intellect tends not to distinguish between general and particular ideas. The Chinese resists logical analysis in the Aristotelian either/or sense. He reasons in what, to the Western mind, seems a chain of non sequiturs. Similarly, the Chinese tends to regard events, not as a matter of cause and effect, but in terms of symmetrical patterns...
...resolution points out, however, that the available evidence is "circumstantial, not particular or substantive," and that the accused members "have categorically denied any knowledge" of CIA involvement with...
...Marshall Commission would leave substantially unaltered the definition of conscientious objectors as men opposed to all war. They did, however, recommend that the system of appeals be streamlined. This is not satisfactory. The President should ask that men who have moral objections to particular wars be exempted from them. A society with power to coerce men into killing must be especially careful to observe the right of individual conscience...
...real concern is the particular ratchet toward which the slander has been directed. This is no ordinary ratchet, but rather the new, carefully selected, exquisitely sensitive, four-pronged, concert ratchet, lent to Mr. Avshalomov by the Harvard University Band. This honorable and delicate instrument may be cranked at angular velocities up to eight pi radians per second. The timbre may be changed by altering the sense of rotation. The possible effects of the ratchet range from single thwacks to pulsating rolls and evenly sustained buzzing. Such awesome versatility is hardly common to "a dilapidated Fourth-of-July noisemaker...