Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign in this vein is hardly admirable but at least logical. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if he can awaken old phobias about Nixon. Whether it is prudent politics for Nixon suddenly to begin emulating his rival's bare-knuckled tactics is another question. The kind of speeches he made last week could serve to revive images of him as a reckless partisan. This can only spur Democrats to fight harder in the campaign's closing days...
...country, occasionally switching positions or contradicting himself, it sometimes seemed as if there were too many of him to pin down. Nixon tiptoed over the hustings, scrupulously avoiding mistakes and evading debate, sometimes giving the impression that there was too little of him to pin down. The most important question for voters, of course, is what kind of President each would make...
...construction boom in the history of cities. No other metropolis in the world offered its inhabitants greater hope of material success or a wider variety of cultural rewards. Yet for all its dynamism and glamour, New York City, day by day, little by little, was sliding toward chaos. "The question now," said its handsome young Mayor, John Lindsay, "is whether we can continue to survive as a city...
...city's minorities, it is not a question of dullness or excitement, but survival in the urban jungle. Properly dissatisfied with the inferior education that most of their children were receiving, the city's Negroes long ago began pressing for local control of schools in black neighborhoods. With encouragement from Lindsay, the Central School Board last year grudgingly met them part way, offering black communities limited autonomy in three experimental districts. If the districts succeeded, the prospect was that the entire school system-a "pathological bureaucracy" in the words of New York University Professor David Rogers-would...
...question that is always asked about New York can be asked about any other metropolis in the U.S. today: Is it governable? Under its present antique structure, the answer is quickly becoming obvious...