Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think I finally know what the phrase "white trash" really means. I thought that such disgusting displays of stupidity had finally stopped in this supposedly civilized age, but I guess not. I only wonder, incredulously, how these people can be so self-satisfied with their conduct...
Malignant Cycle. Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, whose writing on desegregation Nixon admires, had doubts about that phrase. "I trust that Nixon doesn't mean that you can have a district where nothing has been done excused because it has shown good faith," he said. But Bickel found the message "hardheaded and well-intended, a fair statement of the case law and a realistic appraisal of the situation." Johns Hopkins' Dr. James Coleman, author of a well-known study on the educational effects of integration and an expert whom Nixon consulted before issuing the statement, disagreed. "I think...
...nominations, the general lack of warmth, concern and responsibility for blacks on the part of the White House. When Presidential Adviser Daniel P. Moynihan counseled "benign neglect" in his now famous memo, his stated intention was only to remove hysteria from both sides of the racial struggle. But the phrase seems to describe the Administration's attitude on race in general- and most blacks even question the accuracy of the word benign...
...most recent decision on jury selection two months ago, the Supreme Court upheld a Georgia statute that empowers jury commissioners to choose veniremen from "intelligent and upright citizens of the county." The phrase can be variously interpreted. Of 2,152 names on the voting list in Taliaferro County, 178 were excluded on this basis-171 of them blacks. The county is 60% black; the grand jury was 25% black. Yet the court found the statute's standards acceptable, demanding only that they be applied objectively and without discrimination...
Different Yardstick. The phrase fits. Ebert is a community critic; he is not, as he disdainfully phrases it, "an emissary from some outside theory of taste." He prefers "movies" to "films," and laments the fact that the "Princess Theater" in Urbana, Ill., has been renamed "The Cinema." The comforts of critics' screenings are not for him; he favors the "democracy in the dark" afforded by a packed theater where he finds himself happily ensconced as often as ten times a week...