Word: pureed
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...states. By 1930, 24 states had passed laws calling for the sterilization of the "feeble minded, criminals, and paupers," By 1927, 3951 people had been sterilized in California; 61 per cent of whom were immigrants. This record shows that eugenics, which Shockley proposes, is not an idea in the pure sense. Eugenics is sterilization of immigrants, of Jews in Germany, of black people in the U.S. today. Although Shockley's article uses racist logic to call for sterilization, eugenics measures affect white as well as blacks. Eugenics can be the spearhead of fascism as in Germany, where millions of Jews...
Nominated last January by President Nixon to become Solicitor General in June, Robert Bork grew more and more impatient to get to Washington. He had taught at Yale Law School for more than a decade, and Washington, he told friends, was "going to be pure pleasure." It would offer "a lot of intellectual fascination." Last week was indeed a fascinating one for Bork. Having been catapulted into the position of Acting Attorney General as a result of the Cox affair, the professor who came to Washington to gain firsthand knowledge of the Supreme Court found himself at the center...
...Archbald faced charges of accepting money and favors-but his misbehavior was considered unethical rather than criminal. His lawyer, Alexander Simpson, argued that criminality must be involved. Treason, bribery and high crimes are by definition criminal, he observed. "Everybody knows that a misdemeanor taken technically is a crime pure and simple," he said. "If it is taken in the popular sense, you will not find one in a thousand but will say that every one of those words [describing impeachable offenses] imports a crime...
...precisely such gossip that lubricates Vidal's fictionalizing of revisionist history. The novel's form is a memoir within a memoir, somewhat mechanical but well-suited to Vidal's didactic purposes. Only two characters are pure invention. William de la Touche Clancey is a mischievous and gratuitous bit of satire whom followers of Vidal's TV errors and trials should have little trouble identifying. Charlie Schuyler is, according to the author, a young opportunistic journalist "based roughly on the obscure novelist Charles Burdett." This is a flimsy bit of deception. Burdett was so obscure a novelist...
...minorities are the life-blood of Cambridge--blacks, landlords, the rich, Italians, students, the poor, Catholics, intellectuals, etc. Since each minority is equally unpopular and equally strident in its demands for a share of political power, PR remains in Cambridge, its last pure bastion in the country...