Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This was the first clear-cut, realistic choice farmers have ever had on the question of controls versus freedom of decision," crowed Benson. "Farmers are now free to plant as much or as little corn as they wish, with the safeguard of a reasonable support level. They have acted in their own, best long-term interests...
...Alabama law sets up 17 separate standards for assigning pupils to public schools. Nowhere is the question of race or color mentioned, but school boards obviously had a wide-open chance to preserve the segregation status quo in several placement qualifications, including: 1) "the psychological qualification of the pupil for the type of teaching and associates involved," 2) "the possibility of threat of friction or disorder," 3) "the possibility of breaches of the peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community," and 4) "the maintenance or severance of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with...
...changed a nation's way of life, partly because, like the nation in which he lived and of which he partook, he respected both the theoretical ("Why is grass green?" he asked-and one of his bosses, former General Motors President Charles Wilson, came to use the question as an example of woolly-headed, time-wasting pure science) and the practical ("Remember," said Kettering, "that you and I get no place in the world except as we serve the fellow who pays for our dinner...
...intellectuals cannot forget Khrushchev's dictum: "The question of whether he is free or not does not exist for any artist who faithfully serves his people..." Official criticism of Pasternak is still bitter, despite adverse world opinion, and the hope of another thaw...
What is missing is much of the necessary battle with structure, fundamental and unromantic, which should be taking place. Shimizu's shimmering drawings are really quite handsome. What will evolve from them, however, is the question in the case of an artist so young. These compromise far too readily with surface effect and fail to establish the foundation Shimizu needs...