Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bear in mind that members of the Harvard community must not be implicated to an extent greater than their participation. And perhaps most important, Tocsin must not let the less rational (and less representative) participants succeed in their inevitable attempt to usurp the walk and use it as a platform for their own nuclear-dogma...
...rightists rally citizens to their banner in many cases by stressing a belief in nondenominational Christianity as part of their platform. "This war we're in," says South Carolina's Senator Strom Thur mond, "is basically a fight between the believers in a Supreme Being and the atheists." Thus, the rightists' two principal poles of attraction, anti-Communism and religion, are impeccable-and subject to a good deal of emotionalism. But the ultras do not stop there...
...both active and retired. Those still on active duty can often command a captive audience. Thus, until his recent transfer to Pentagon duty, U.S. Navy Captain Kenneth J. Sanger, commanding officer of the Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle, was wont to require attendance at his dramatic platform demonstrations. On a mast labeled "Free Enterprise," he would hoist signs representing such virtues as "Loyalty," "Patriotism." and "Self-Reliance." Then he would pick up a stick called "Communism," take a hefty swing-and watch all the virtues come tumbling down...
...there are reasons more compelling than legal complexity which should persuade the Department to abandon its schemes to keep Communists at home. Since its passage in 1950 the Act has been used constantly as a platform from which bureaucrats could subject various organizations to arbitrary and unnecessary harassment. The State Department need not indulge in precisely the kind of behavior that frequently makes the government's treatment of its dissenting citizens so unfair and so obnoxious...
...members of Salazar's rubber-stamping National Union. They were contested this year by an articulate cross section that was known informally as the "Democratic Opposition" and ranged from monarchists to socialists and old-guard liberals, disenchanted doctors and lawyers to army and navy officers. The opposition platform, which the government labeled "unconstitutional," called for democratic rights, economic progress and an enlightened colonial policy. But the opposition's main target was 72-year-old António de Oliveira Salazar, for as one candidate exclaimed: "The government's only hope is that Salazar is immortal. Like Hitler...