Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Underwear. Back in 1913, rich Republican Senator Elihu Root complained that the new income tax statute, a mere dozen pages then, was too complex. "No one understands the income tax law," he said, "except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it." But the opponents of complexity had not seen anything yet. High tax rates inevitably brought incessant demands for ways of escaping them. Ignoring Lincoln's implied warning that the task was inherently impossible, Congress over the years has kept trying to accommodate every pressure group of taxpayers with a claim...
...Healy questioned whether government action would "get to the root of labor-management problems." Instead he advocated a new approach to collective bargaining...
...Robert Tafts and the Lyndon Johnsons usually do not win at Chicago or Philadelphia." The Electoral College compels the presidential parties to "cater to the urban masses and their liberal dogmas." For leadership, they draw from the ranks of big-city lawyers, Eastern financial executives, academicians (Republican examples: Elihu Root, Henry Stimson, John Foster Dulles, Douglas Dillon). These parties are generally internationalist, favor activist government, are concerned with broad "way-of-life" issues...
...today is ruled by money, and this leads to a dangerous passivity toward problems of the spirit." But sometimes Antonioni's pessimism seems almost as sick as the sickness he deplores, and certainly it is naive. The love of money is not, St. Paul to the contrary, the root of evil; and evil is not the dominant quality of modern life. Evil there is, but even in evil there is hope. As Mephistopheles admits in Goethe's Faust: ''I am the spirit that ever denies. That ever Evil wills and ever Good accomplishes...
White men have refused to recognize the present situation, or "to approach people with respect and dignity." "But if we can root this racism out," Day concluded, "we will replace it with the understanding that...