Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential candidates' views on Viet Nam will obviously shift in the wake of Johnson's speech. But even before he made it, Richard Nixon had already begun to moderate his position. The prevalent impression had been that Nixon was more bellicose than Johnson and that he had a concrete plan for ending the war. Both ideas stemmed from Nixon's own past statements, but neither was strictly accurate...
Nixon's discussion of Viet Nam reflected no basic change in his ideas but a shift of emphasis. As early as 1954, the then Vice President believed that U.S. troops should be sent to save the French from defeat in Indo-China. After the Johnson Administration began its major U.S. buildup eleven years later, Nixon supported the commitment in principle, but criticized its implementation, finding fault with the gradualism of the war effort...
Post-Conciliar Split. The Communist strategy is aimed at producing a mere 2% shift in votes. After the 1963 elections, the Christian Democrats could have turned either left or right to seek partners to form a coalition government...
...attack the basic prison problem - isolation from society the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice advocates a drastic shift to "community-based corrections." Two-thirds of all offenders are already being supervised outside the walls, on probation or parole. But probation is still widely regarded as clemency rather than treatment; only one-third of American courts have reasonably adequate probation staffs. Burdened with over 100 cases apiece, plus pre-sentence reports for judges, many probation officers can give offenders only ten or 15 minutes, once or twice a month. To cut average caseloads...
...imagination into poetry rather than into the monotone prose that is the mark of most New Novels. Histoire should be read as poetry, which means it should be read aloud. Speed readers, trained to sop up information and the dull acknowledgments of psychological and sociological fiction, will have to shift into low. Histoire has the dream's unquestioned authority to exist without having to justify itself in time, space or in man's rickety categories of experience...