Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the impossibility of representation, many students thus feel nothing but disdain for those who bid for their vote and pass themselves off as their representatives. In addition the belief of the academically oriented that those who politick are in a lower class causes disdain for another reason, and so the student may mark his ballot with the patronizing view that he is pampering to the foolish whims of these politicos who perhaps do what they do because they lack the intellectual strength to study and become immersed in academics, and so must compensate for their academic weaknesses...
...severance of the leader from the student the sole reason for such actions; the student-leader has the example of countless numbers of his elders. One reads so frequently of political pecadillos on the national level that one may easily come to suppose that the only way to get into politics is through minor illegal machination...
Most recent analysis of international affairs has concerned itself primarily with what is essentially technique, accepting as inevitable Russo-American antagonism and questioning not the objectives, but only the methods of Western policy. For this reason, William Appleman Williams' study--The Tragedy of American Diplomacy--is simultaneously enlightening and disquieting...
...systems without being considered double jeopardy within either system. Wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter, 76, as he picked the majority's way through court precedent in the Bartkus case: "It would be in derogation of our federal system to displace the reserved power of states over state offenses by reason of prosecution of minor federal offenses by federal authorities beyond the control of the states...
Britain's great civil war began in 1642. It is still being fought. Every schoolboy, guided more by his own temperament than historical fact, still takes sides as a dashing Cavalier or a solid Roundhead-which is perhaps one reason why modern Britain rests its institutions in an all-powerful Parliament but reserves its affections for a powerless monarchy. In Volume II of her great history, which carries on from The King's Peace, Historian C. V. (for Cicely Veronica) Wedgwood touches this national nerve of double loyalty and lets it enliven what would otherwise be dreary years...