Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shards of the Johnsonian consensus, most of big labor remains loyal. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has already endorsed the President for reelection. The latest federation convention whooped through a resolution supporting the Administration's Viet Nam policy and, with Walter Reuther absent, there was barely a skeptic to be found. Instead of end-the-war placards, Johnson spotted one promoting LYNDON NUGENT...
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, a congenital skeptic and distinguished Oxford don whose obiter dicta have em braced such disparate subjects as the Profumo Affair, Lady Chatterley and the plagiarisms of a 17th century Polish poet, last week published his scholar's evaluation of the Warren Commission Report and its critics. A Latinist, an attorney by training and, for the last 15 years, warden of All Souls College-one of the most eminent posts in British academe-wartime Guardsman Sparrow, 61, concluded empirically that the Warren Report on the assassination must stand and that the "demonologists" who so often attack...
...reportory), on one occasion found Serios unwilling to permit their inspection of the gismo and the hand that held it, and returned to write: "Whether or not Ted Serios is a charlatan or a genuine psychic we cannot say. We can only state that whe arrived in Denver profoundly skeptical about his ability to produce what Dr. Eisenbud claims in his book--and left even more skeptical." (Compose for tone with the report of the London Daily Mail Commission for the study of spirit photography, July 16th, 1909: "We are therefore of the opinion that no evidence whatever--experimental...
...mainly in strengthening the Republicans' moderate-liberal wing. The G.O.P. gain of 47 House seats in the November election, which cuts the Democratic advantage to 248 v. 187, gives the Republicans their strongest House delegation since 1957-58 and nudges the House back toward its traditional role of skeptic. A recent survey by Congressional Quarterly showed that while 218 representatives of the 89th -an absolute majority-generally favored new Great Society measures, only 177 members-elect of the new House said that they...
...endowments and prospects, he remains a vociferous skeptic...