Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would seem that within your midst there is an element that is determined to turn you folks into a nation of patsys...
...capacity to distinguish among the enormously varied aspects of black America. Says the National Urban League's Whitney Young: "Somehow the white community has got to get over the idea that we should provide them with a black messiah who will be all things to all men. Whites seem to be able to distinguish their own crackpots from the rest, but when there's a riot of blacks, it's all just blacks...
...have all learned, we all know, that in dictatorial regimes the beginning may seem easy. Yet tragedy waits at the end, inescapably. It is this tragic ending that consciously or unconsciously torments us, as in the ancient choruses of Aeschylus...
Identical Attitudes. So far, the Soviets seem to feel that their own purpose is served best by the existence of Asian countries strong enough to resist Chinese influence. If that is the case, the Russian attitude is almost identical with that of the U.S. In the long run, however, the Soviet penetration of Asia may make the problems of peace more difficult to solve. The Russian presence can only add to China's paranoid feelings of encirclement. The time may come when the U.S., either as a counterbalance to Russia or to aid a more moderate and rational post...
...that only difficult borderline mental cases ever get to court in the first place. Defendants who show obvious symptoms of illness are committed to institutions immediately, as incompetent to stand trial. The offenders who are left, Yale Law School Professor Abraham S. Goldstein points out, are usually men who seem calm in the dock even though they may have been seriously disordered at the time of the crime...