Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the departure of Ben Heckscher and Cal Place from the varsity ranks and three years of brilliant match play, the Crimson squash team doesn't seem quite the same...
This failure to consider aesthetic criteria is a romantic arrogance. Social scientists seem to believe that "truth" exists independently of their efforts to embody this truth in verbal or symbolic formulations. They further believe that they have direct access to this truth, and they therefore assume that if they make a statement which is not false, they are necessarily increasing human knowledge, no matter how inane, inarticulate, or inept their formulation...
...Justice Reed were still sitting on the Supreme Court, the excuse might seem more palatable. But he isn't. Although he can still be asked to serve on courts anywhere in the country, he knows that he can always disqualify himself from cases involving civil rights. Furthermore, his presence and the very respect he cites for the judiciary could have added substantially to the prestige of a vital but controversial commission...
Since the Supreme Court ruled in May, 1954, that segregated schooling violates the Fourteenth Amendment, the southern states have gone to astonishing lengths to combat this decision. An alarmingly large number of public officials seem determined to preserve a society of racial stratification and have even issued statements proclaiming their willingness to end public education if public schools must be integrated...
...facts of the situation seem fairly clear: the NAACP is not a subversive organization. It has long since taken the precaution of banning communists from membership and avoiding cooperation with communists. Its "subversion" consists of aid to citizens who wish to bring cases to court, a process which could undermine only those institutions whose existence is contrary to the guarantees of the constitution...