Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater may not have been as Communist-oriented as some have alleged, but Clifford Odets, an avowed Communist sympathizer, was the dominant voice on Broadway. Even Edmund Wilson lent his gravity of mind and great critical prestige to the Cause and was heard in a somewhat baffling plea to U.S. intellectuals to "take Communism away from the Communists." He got small thanks from Michael Gold, a man of small talent and great authority who functioned as a sort of U.S. cultural commissar for the party. Wrote Gold (later, of course): "Wilson ascended the 'proletarian bandwagon' with the arrogance...
Nizer has filled his book with courtroom strategy and insight. In a divorce case, a wife's plea for low alimony and a large property settlement generally means that she intends to remarry as soon as she gets her loot. Conversely, a demand for high alimony suggests that she has no immediate marriage prospects. Like the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, Nizer also favors waving a manila envelope full of "documents" to discomfort witnesses during crossexamination; the envelope is often empty. During direct examination of his client, he says, a good lawyer will stand...
...phrases that any Republican President might have used, Kennedy couched his plea for tariff cuts in terms of their advantage to U.S. business, urged more loans instead of outright grants for foreign aid, proposed a welfare program stressing "rehabilitation instead of relief," and even, in his controversial plan for medical care for the aged, proposed a pay-as-you-go insurance plan rather than any program of outright aid. He promised to send a new farm program to Congress, but it was strange to hear a Democratic President speak matter-of-factly of the possibility of "a national scandal...
...HEALTH. In a strong plea for medical care for the aged tied to social security, the President said that "no piece of unfinished business is more important or more urgent," asked that a bill on the matter be passed "without further delay." Kennedy also recommended "a new public welfare program, stressing services instead of support, rehabilitation instead of relief, and training for useful work instead of long dependency...
...Alumni Monthly concluded with a plea to alumni "to pitch in and help" to make the football seasons of the next 12 years something to be proud of. There was little doubt this year that alumni at least had plenty of advice to offer...