Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course. Very few instructors, if any, take any pains to dispel the dangerous myth, very widespread in radical circles and among students in general, that because those who profess venerable systems do so hypocritically, the values themselves must be held suspect. Thus not only is the classroom devoid of partisan argument on behalf of particular value systems; but even less than at Berkeley or Central Washington or the other state colleges and universities I've been attached to does society's withdrawal from value systems of all kinds, and into a proliferation and legitimization of anarchical intellectual, social, and personal...
...first time put in a full five-day week of deliberation. Long criticized for its slow pace and three-day weeks, the committee suddenly came under opposing fire from the White House for its haste. The President's special counsel, Dean Burch, assailed the committee as "a partisan lynch mob" acting under orders from the Democratic "hierarchy" of the Congress. Chairman Rodino came under intense personal criticism after Los Angeles Times Reporter Jack Nelson indirectly quoted him as saying in an informal chat with three newsmen (Rodino thought it was off the record) that all 21 of the committee...
...question of whether to schedule all of St. Clair's witnesses set off the most partisan wrangle of the committee hearings so far. Democrats argued that most had already testified in other forums and would delay the committee's work. The debate continued for nearly six hours, with four Democrats at one point joining a solid Republican lineup for including the St. Clair choices. That produced a 21-to-17 vote in St. Clair's favor. But then Chairman Rodino called a recess, caucused with the committee Democrats and persuaded two of the four (Don Edwards...
...colonial times (when American papers were instrumental in fighting British rule) and the early decades of the Republic, the press was highly partisan and rambunctious, often challenging authority or otherwise disturbing the peace. But because the founding fathers saw this role of the press as being essential to democracy, even as they were slightly uncomfortable with it, the First Amendment put a constitutional shield on press freedom, helping U.S. journalism to become the most independent and vigorous in the world. In the process, the business of informing its audience became far more important than polemics, and the U.S. press also...
...other time-wasting debates. Nearly a day was devoted to arguing over whether the committee should meet in closed or open sessions. Another half-day was spent debating whether the committee should decide in advance what constituted an impeachable offense. The committee postponed the decision, chiefly to avoid a partisan showdown. But Republican Representative Delbert Latta of Ohio, a Nixon defender, maintained in retrospect: "If we'd defined an impeachable offense to begin with, we wouldn't have gone so slowly. It would have been clear that largely unproven charges weren't going to be relevant...