Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question: "I would like to see American students develop as much fanaticism about the U.S. political system as young Nazis did about their system during the war," is probably accurate, it has been so torn out of context that it means nothing except that the President used an unfortunate phrase. An isolated phrase, however, in no way proves that these are his beliefs, and I think there is a good deal of evidence that Johnson is not an advocate of Fascism. It also seems incredible to damn a public statesman on the basis of a blooper...
...Supreme Court alone to solve the problem. The justices have the responsibility to determine what the Constitution means by the due process of law it guarantees to criminal suspects. But some would think it an unhappy role for the court to read out of that vague constitutional phrase a detailed code of criminal procedure regulating every police practice. That is what the court has apparently been asked to do in the pending cases that you so compellingly described. It seems particularly doubtful that the responsibility for devising fair and effective criminal processes should rest entirely on the court...
Acronyms Aweigh. As far as Congress was concerned, the most compelling argument for the anti-poverty program was that it could ultimately transform chronic "tax eaters," in Johnson's phrase, to new taxpayers. Even before it received congressional approval, Shriver had started gathering staffers and ideas. "How in the hell do you fight a war on poverty?" he asked everyone within earshot. "What do you do?" Laboring up to 16 hours a day, the anti-poverty warriors were shunted all over the capital, found themselves at one point in the basement morgue of an ancient hospital, at another...
...changed. The time has arrived. President Joseph Mobutu last week decreed that, as of July 1, Elisabethville will be called Lubumbashi (because it is on the Lubumba River), Stanleyville will revert to its pre-Belgian name Kisangani, and Leopoldville, the capital, will become Kinshasa-a corruption of the Bafununga phrase for "Why do you ask?" The result is bound to be several years of nominal confusion, but at least the cause of African nationalism has been served...
...stone or bronze of any form whatsoever," said he, "will, helped by the skilled persuasion of venders, and often, I am sorry to say, financially involved and therefore perhaps not unbiased writers on art, be received with bated breath and called 'profound imponderables' or some such meaningless phrase. Accidental splashes of color or rags or sacking on canvas, the man will boldly tell you, is an art of great significance, and if you look at it long enough, 'will do something to you'; and we are all too timid to answer 'Nonsense...