Word: pendulum
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...become less certain. For the first time this year, splits in the Nixon bloc happened more often than not. Only 36% of the time did the quartet vote together, as against 67% last year and 73% two years ago. That does not mean that the court's political pendulum has swung back to the left. Rather, court watchers say, the court has become distinctly nonideological. "They have no overarching doctrine," says Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "They're taking cases as they come in pragmatic fashion." In the early '70s some expected Chief Justice Burger...
Hooray to Frank Trippett for his Essay, "New Sentimental Journey" [Jan. 30]. Fortunately, he has merely predicated what we romanticists have always (albeit secretly) predicted-that the pendulum would inevitably swing back, in our favor...
...answers to questions suggests that Teacher Marva Collins had better re-study what Socrates was all about. Socratic questioning doesn't call for pat, memorized answers. Why do dedicated "back-to-basics" teachers feel that they must always swing to the opposite side of the current educational pendulum? Can't they combine the best of both worlds...
Speculation cannot be limited to these three. All are known as administrators, and in the pendulum philosophy of many cardinals, Paul's successor should exhibit a pastoral style, not unlike that of Pope John XXIII. Such an approach, they feel, might provide a far more accessible papacy and a welcome father figure for the world's 710 million Roman Catholics...
...been going on among Chinese for centuries. More than a decade after the end of the McCarran Committee investigations, Fairbank is reported to have told a group of young China-language foreign service officers not to be too confident about the political freedom of the '60s because, "Remember, the pendulum could swing the other way. It always does." A few years later, sure enough, Fairbank was again struck by the pendulum's swing when he was criticized by "New Left" China scholars who felt he had been insufficiently critical of U.S. policy toward Peking and insufficiently fast in becoming...