Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disgusted at the ever-expanding Lima slums and impatient for swifter reforms, Belaúnde finally decided to form his own political party a few months before the 1956 presidential elections. He named it Accion Popular, a catch phrase suggesting that the best help is selfhelp. No one would help the peasants unless they awoke from their coca-chewing lethargy and helped themselves-in the same cooperative, community spirit of their Inca forefathers. Working together, they could build roads and schools and hospitals -Belaúnde would see that they got the tools. "This was the philosophical idea," he says...
...industries like fish meal were growing, and the sol had become one of Latin America's stronger currencies. Then here came Belaunde, inexperienced in government, unschooled in banking or economics. He came with a platform that seemed to promise all things to all men, a rare gift of phrase, and a tendency toward impulse...
...voice just perfect for harrumphing (although he does not indulge) and a sense of humor just dry enough to let him refer to a political enemy as "that rodent" and pull it off. In addition, the dapper Senator from Pennsylvania has a delightful penchant for the well turned phrase (he often emits a self-congratulatory chortle after some especially well burnished jewel), and speaks with the assurance of a man used to being listened...
...Supreme Court is the Constitution." For that very reason, Frankfurter feared that lifetime judges, free of popular veto, might easily impose their own notions of "justice." He warned repeatedly that diffusion of power is the basic premise of U.S. Government. In public policy, he said (borrowing a phrase from his hero Justice Holmes), "the sovereign prerogative of choice" should always rest with elected compromisers and the people to whom they answer...
...doubt here are those who are glad that Malcolm X is dead, though in prayers and in conversation with Negroes they will say, "Each man's death diminishes my own." I have never known what that phrase means. At any rate, Malcolm's death cannot be understood by this peculiar subtraction, but only through an acquaintance with the violence and the tragedy in Negro life, the reluctant role he accepted and the lashing emotion which his murder evokes in some Negroes...