Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While publishers can and do print anything these days without much fear of censorship, the question of what kind of books schoolchildren should be permitted to read arouses as much rancor and righteousness as ever. Some prudes are shocked that students should be exposed to the earthy bawdiness of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Negroes protest the "Uncle Tomism" of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn; reactionaries worry about left-wing interpretations in history texts. According to a recent survey by the National Education Association, 334 books on class reading lists or in school libraries were singled out for criticism...
...invented constructivism? The question might once have seemed academic. But in the past decade as art has trended ever more sharply in the direction of hard-edged abstract geometry - in color-field and op painting, in kinetic and minimal sculpture, constructivism has been increasingly recognized as a wellspring of ideas that many of to day's artists find congenial and espouse as their...
...frequently discussed Viet Nam with the President and is a known backer of Administration policy. Given those circumstances, Professor William Bishin of the University of Southern California argues that "Fortas couldn't possibly give unbiased consideration to the rights of anti-Viet Nam war demonstrators. If the question of the constitutionality of the war should come before the court, Fortas would not be able to rule upon it from an impartial position." Making the same point another way, U.C.L.A. Politics Professor David Farrelly wonders "how impartial the court could have been in 1952 when it had to decide...
...make up the program for the Republican National Convention have trouble filling the time too. For both sessions on Monday and the one Tuesday night, they had to find a glittering cast of speakers who would bring honor to the Republican party without touching at all on the question of who should be nominated. To be sure, Barry Goldwater, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Mayor John V. Lindsay in their own ways indirectly supported their choices for the top spot on the ticket through what they said, but for the most part those first two days were uncontroversial, and insufferably boring...
Harvard faculty committees aren't much more successful or efficient than less star-studded one. Attendance at committee meetings was often sparse. Few members were persistent enough to probe all possible angles of the question. Instead of growing out of long dialogues, the committee's report came from Beecher's drafts...