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...Nixonian rubric laid upon the Burger Court is "Strict construction of the Constitution." If history is any guide, critics will soon accuse the court of ignoring this mandate in favor of personal opinions or even partisan politics. And the shrewdest critics will be the nation's ablest court watchers-the legal scholars who often find the court guilty of faulty legal reasoning...
...discussion of the American feminist movement is contained under the rubric of "bitter women [calling] you to rebellion." And her detailing of it shows little comprehension of the wide popularity of consciousness-raising groups which have done more than anything else to propagate the women's movement...
...three "divisions"-the first stressing techniques of advanced learning, the second concentrating on one or more disciplines, the third consisting of an independent study project. The only requirements are one term in "human development," ranging from sexual roles to the I Clung, plus another in "language and communication," a rubric for topics from grammar to the possibilities of "extraterrestrial intelligence...
...plan to give local governments more spending power also calls for dismantling some Great Society programs that did specific things for specific people -paying for remedial-reading teachers for poor schoolchildren, for instance. Nixon means to pool many of those resources under a broader rubric, in this case, education. It would be up to the state or the city getting the federal money to spend as it chose, as long as the general purpose of education was advanced. No one, not even the experts at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, can yet say for certain how such crucial...
...began, such as Headstart, testified to his willingness to seek new solutions. Yet all too often he answered the call of the '60s with the responses of the '30s. He too readily fell back on "Molly and the babies," on the you-never-had-it-so-good rubric. To be sure, most Americans had never had it so good. But now they wanted it better and different...