Word: saliently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon of March 29 found Peter Seeger '40 guilty on ten counts for contempt of Congress. I cannot overlook the irony inherent in the conviction of Seeger for refusing to speak before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The most salient factor in the folk singer's character is his seeming inability to stop voicing his political and social opinions. Each Seeger concert is as much the singer's philosophical thesis as the folk songs themselves, and even the song "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" is chacteristically prefaced by the performer, Carnegie Hall, December...
...nation's economic ills. While Kennedy's economic message to Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) did not offer as many remedies as his diagnosis seemed to call for, the financial community apparently liked the prescription. His proposals, the Wall Street Journal said approvingly, are "rather modest." "The salient impression made by President Kennedy's economic message to Congress is its orthodoxy," said John Hay Whitney's New York Herald Tribune. "It confirms once again the notion that his financial instincts are cautious and conservative rather than experimental or revolutionary...
...convenient and wise to be non-violent. Or there is a moral explanation: the resisters regard violence as evil, under all circumstances. They feel that the dignity of man must be maintained even, or perhaps especially, in protest movements. And one can note that religion is a more active salient influence in the life of the Negro than of the white, and the southern Negro church is a more important agency of community cohesion and ethical teaching than is the northern today...