Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some particular research project is inappropriate for a university it should be terminated selectively, leaving the majority of research, which contributes to the university's objectives...
Critics argue that U.S. efforts to isolate China have merely given the Communists a unifying and strengthening hate symbol-and spurred more subversion. Some regard the U.S. presence in Viet Nam as a particular blunder, because it may have weakened Viet Nam's historical role as a buffer against Chinese expansion. There is one theory that the U.S. should have let Ho Chi Minh unify Viet Nam and emerge as an anti-Chinese Asian Tito. This may be fantasy. Still, U.S. intervention may have helped to draw the Chinese into the war. The material aid that Peking has furnished...
...receptions was at the headquarters of the San Francisco State College Black Student Union, where minds were closed even to angry give and take. "There are only two places the media people have been at," announced one of the hosts. "Racism and nowhere." That was as deep as that particular dialogue ever went. The meeting was of value only as a measure of the consuming bitterness of the extremists. The Oakland Black Panthers went even further, canceling their meeting at the last moment unless they were offered...
Bringing the court to such isolated outposts is an expensive, exhausting proposition. TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan, who accompanied Morrow on one leg of his most recent trip, was impressed by the huge amount of flying and effort necessary to hear cases. This particular 2½-day tour involved flying 1,800 miles to hear four minor cases. The administration of justice in the Northwest costs about $600,000 a year, not a little of which goes for chartered planes. The Canadian government is willing to spend the money in an effort to treat the Eskimo the same as any other...
...Morrow does not provide some local twists in his administration of justice. "In this culture," he says, "the criminal code of Canada does not always apply." Eskimo custom, for example, long tolerated blood-feud killings and also executions, which occurred when a village informally but solemnly decided that a particular individual was a threat to the public good. When Morrow is occasionally faced with such crimes, he makes no attempt to excuse the acts, but his sentences are usually light...