Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great expanse of bull-dozed wasteland covered with crab-grass and bits of broken pavement. The auditorium had about 3000 people in it when Wallace arrived, and the seats were arranged in a square with no one in the middle and no one behind the speaker's platform. This arrangement is designed to cut down on the risk of assassination, and also to reduce the contact between Wallace's supporters and the hecklers, who had turned out today in some numbers...
...holding the prejudice that no white professor could ever teach a course about black people and their history. "Blissfully unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning," Kilson charged, "the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalist propaganda...
...should teach a course on what they like to call "black history." Blissfully unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning, the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course (and any other such course, for that matter) to a platform for black nationalist propaganda...
Alinsky shared the panel platform with Adam Yarmolinsky, professor of Law at Harvard, who moderated the discussion; Joseph Alsop, columnist and author; and Thomas I. Atkins, the only black member of the Boston City Council...
While the Democratic platform pledged a "balanced defense" and a "vigorous research and development effort," its emphasis was on the need to "recognize that vigilance calls for the twin discipline of defense and arms control." The GOP's call "to restore superiority" is more likely to impress Americans wearied by the long war in Vietnam...