Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closed by these laws, approximately 10,000 children will be denied an education. These children are going to be some of the leaders of the U.S., and our country's future depends on them. Closing the schools, destroying public education, and defying federal law is not helping provide sound leadership for the future...
That Mace is dedicated to the ideals of American Business is all but undeniable, if only from his description of Litton president "Tex" Thornton: "One of the greatest leaders of modern industry...imaginative, insists on sound planning, aggressive, dynamic, inspirational, very high sense of integrity...
Literary quarterlies are plagued by excesses of slide projector poetry, that brand of literature which will stand scrutiny but not reading. Fortunately, the current Audience is an exception; it has more than enough sound rich work to make...
...amusing "sick, sick, sick" poem by Daniel Langton called "A Modern Poem." They are skillful space fillers. Anne Sexton has five poems printed: all are sentimental--"And that's the Way it Was" inversely so. "The Exorcists" redeems itself in places and "Hutch" looks as if it ought to sound nice...
Similarly "self-determination" in our election-conscious Western society seems like a natural democratic solution for the people on Formosa, and this principle is undoubtedly basis for a sound policy. But if we expect it to be applied in the form of a "plebiscite" sponsored by the UN, we will be disappointed. Plebiscites are not an old Chinese custom. The Nationalist government on Taiwan is a sovereign power in law and in its own sentiment and view of itself. It would not permit the UN to come in and stage a referendum; nor would it be desirable...